Roger Burrows

Professional Summary

My aim is to help students recognize what motivates them, identify opportunities that matter, and secure the resources needed to succeed. My latest books, “Visual Thinking, Seeing Through Time,” are intended to be resource hubs for visual thinking. Within the pages there are lots of ‘core’ ideas developed over thousands of years created all over the world. The pages can be read as normal books but the concepts can be accessed in anyway that imagination allows.

In short, I like to describe myself as a geometrician specializing in the intersections of historical and near-future arts and architecture. I am an author, lecturer, and educator in geometrical concepts related to architecture and three-dimensional design. A seasoned technology inventor and developer, equipped with extensive experience in three-dimensional software and hardware platforms. I am notable for my pioneering architectural geometries involving shape-changing polyhedra and dynamic close-packing sphere structures, for Altair and Images design books, for my inventions such as Questron and Magnix, as well as my expertise in code, microcontrollers, and robotics.

Author

1. 3D Thinking in Design and Architecture – From Antiquity to the Future, 978-0500519547.

Thames and Hudson Ltd., London and New York, May 2018.

2. Mind Doodles, 978-0997591040, Park City Publishing Ltd, 2017.

3. Crystal Cave, 978-1632866271, Bloomsbury (USA), Wooden Books (UK), 2016.

With Sir Roger Penrose et al. – Delving into geometric lattices including Penrose tilings.

4. Labyrinths, Hidden Geometry, Apple Inc., 2012.

5. Altair Design Books, 978-1907155000, Pattern Pad No. 1 and Pattern Pad No. 2, Wooden Books, Bloomsbury, 2009.

6. Images Design Books 1 thru. 5. Jumbo edition: 978-0762439089, Running Press, Hachette, 1991-2008.

Papers / Guest Lectures

1. The Story of Altair Designs and Jules Bourgoin

Bridges Conference, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2025.

2. In Search of Beauty in Architecture and the Arts

The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts, London, 2020.

3. Reconstructing Early Islamic Geometries Applied to Surface Designs

Bridges Conference, Linz, Austria, 2019.

4. A Design Method Based on Close-Packing Circles and Spheres of Multiple Sizes for Designers and Architects

Bridges Conference, Stockholm, 2018.

5. New Ways of 3D Thinking

The Academy of Art University, San Francisco, 2018.

6. Ancient Concepts Inspiring New Ideas

Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah, 2018.

7. Historic Geometric Systems

Bridges Conference, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2017.

8. Shape-Changing Polyhedra

Bridges Conference, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, 2016.

9. Golden Ratio – The Divine Proportion?

The Leonardo Science and Technology Museum, 2016.

10. The Future of Architecture

The Leonardo Science and Technology Museum, 2016.

11. Making Space, Finding Space

The Architectural Association, London, 1974.

12. Making Space, Finding Space

The Association of Teachers of Mathematics (UK), 1973.

Teaching Experience

1. Software and Technology Development

Head of Department, Park City Center for Advanced Professional Studies, 2013-2016.

2. Young Inventors

Summer Classes at the Kimball Art Center, Park City, Utah, 2011, 2012.

3. Mathematics

The Deepings School, UK, 1972-1978.

Architecture

1. The Nancy Stetson Art Studio

Boulder, Colorado, USA, with architect Philip Tabb, 1986.

2. Designed the ‘Wales Tomorrow’ Exhibition

For the Investiture of the Prince of Wales in Caernarfon, Wales. Project Manager: Brynn Jones, 1969.

Exhibitions

1. In Search of Beauty in the Arts and Architecture

The Tetbury Goods Shed, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK, 2020.

2. Geomorph – When Mathematics Meets Art and Architecture

The Leonardo Science and Technology Museum, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2013.

3. Making Space-Finding Space

The Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1974.

4. ‘Photography into Art’ Exhibition

Camden Arts Center, London, featuring electro-mechanical geometric art alongside Man Ray and Cecil Beaton, 1972.

5. Shape Changing Polyhedra

Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, 1971.

6. Designed the ‘Wales Tomorrow’ Exhibition

For the Investiture of the Prince of Wales in Caernarfon, Wales. Project Manager: Brynn Jones, 1969.

Technology Development

1. Sandvik Innovations, Pennsylvania (1995-2010)

Invented and developed technologies including Magnix, Photo Q, Educational micro-computers, and Trimensions.

2. Established Booktronics Division

For Reader’s Digest, based in Westport, Connecticut, 1992-1994.

3. Managing Director

News Ltd.: Bay Books (Sydney), Times Books (Sydney), Merehurst Publications (London), 1989-1992.

4. Executive Vice President

Price, Stern, Sloan Publishers, Inc., developed and manufactured Questron Technology, 1981 onwards.

Research Statement

The development of ‘minimum space modular architecture’ derived from infinite 3D fixed and shape-changing lattices.