Get eBooks Bruno Munari: Square, Circle, Triangle
By Bruno Munari
In the early 1960s Italian design legend Bruno Munari published his visual case
studies on shapes: Circle, Square, and, a decade later, Triangle. Using examples
from ancient Greece and Egypt, as well as works by Buckminster Fuller, Le
Corbusier, and Alvar Aalto, Munari invests the three shapes with specific
qualities: the circle relates to the divine, the square signifies safety and
enclosure, and the triangle provides a key connective form for designers.One of
the great designers of the twentieth century, Munari contributed to the fields of
painting, sculpture, design, and photography while teaching throughout his
seventy-year career. After World War II he began to focus on book design,
creating children's books known for their simplicity and playfulness.
