Bruno Munari: Square, circle, triangle

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 th...

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1. Verfasser: Munari, Bruno 1907-1998 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Princeton Architectural Press 2015
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Zusammenfassung: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.0Triangle: 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
Beschreibung:Drei Bücher von Bruno Munari, welche das erste Mal zusammengebunden ersch.: Il Quadrato, Il Cerchio und Il Triangolo
Beschreibung:285 S. überw. Ill.
ISBN:9781616894122