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KETICH CRITCHLOW
KETICH CRITCHLOW, 1976
When the Minbar of the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem was damaged in an arson attack, the ancient knowledge of how to map the structure geometrically was long considered lost. A 30 year search led to an engineer stumbling across Keith Critchlow’s book ‘Islamic Patterns’ in a bookstore in Damascus, and found the book contained the answers to the ancient sacred geometry. A British artist and academic, Critchlow was in a group of abstract expressionists before he became a student of Buckminster Fuller and eventually the world’s leading authority on sacred Islamic geometry. For Critchlow, mathematics and geometry were the highest forms of art, and art was the direct link to higher power.