Folded Forms: Symmetrical and Playful Paper Designs

Learn eight innovative folded-paper models that can be combined into 60+ sculptures and ornaments from polyhedra expert Alexander Heinz. 

In this follow-up to his first book, Folding Polyhedra, Alexander Heinz introduces eight more paper-folding models here. Most of these models are easy to assemble from a combination of folded triangles, squares, pentagons, and hexagons, which are assembled in a symmetrical modular way, allowing you to create more than 60 forms by using and combining the different folded-paper models.

The models presented in this book use a mathematical geometric folding technique that Alexander Heinz developed himself, and all have the same edge length, allowing every one of them to fit together edge to edge and corner to corner and making folding and combining the models easy.

These projects may look very complex but are actually very simple to make, and can be for all ages. Once you've mastered the models and learned to assemble the forms, use these techniques to create your own unique and colorful paper sculptures and ornamental designs.

Alexander Heinz has a master's in bookbinding and has authored numerous articles about polyhedra forms and other subjects in geometry. With his free-model projects he hopes to unite craft, art, and geometry. He lives in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.