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Bruno Munari: Square, Circle, Triangle (Paperback)
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Bruno Munari: Square, Circle, Triangle (Paperback)
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Circle: "God is a circle whose center is everywhere but whose
circumference is nowhere." Circle means perfection, cyclicity,
superiority of the divinity, but also instability and movement. In
nature soap bubbles are spherical and internal trees' rings are
circular; the legend tells that Giotto drew a perfect O, while
perfection is tangible on Michelangelo's Tondo Doni and
Botticelli's Vergine col Bambino. King Arthur's knights were pairs
around a round table, and nowadays people sit in circle to make a
decision or watch a show. Bruno Munari selects and describes in
this little, extraordinary encyclopedia, several uses of this
fascinating and mysterious form, unstable and hieratic at the same
time. Square: Square has much importance in man's life: a lot of
churches, monuments, games (like chess), and fonts are
square-based. But man seems not to realise it... one more time
Bruno Munari amazes us with an historical, anthropological,
scientific square book. Triangle: From the vegetable structure of
the coconut to the diagram of human settlements by Le Corbusier,
one can frequently find the shape of the equilateral triangle in
many different occurrences, both in a natural environment and in
artificial works. Along with the circle and the square, the
equilateral triangle is one of the three basic forms, and is
suitable to be combined in modular frameworks to generate a
structured field in which endless other combinatorial forms may be
constructed. From classical Arab and Japanese decorations to the
contemporary architecture of Buckminster Fuller and Wright, the
familiarity with the equilateral triangle, in all its formal and
structural resources, generates curious and fascinating
experimentations. After the books of the same collection dedicated
to the circle and the square, a new reprint by Bruno Munari about
the many uses of this evocative shape throughout the centuries.
These studies were originally published in 1976 in the series
Quaderni di design, curated by Munari himself for Zanichelli.
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