num_pages: 288
description: In the early 1960s Italian design legend Bruno Munari published his visual case studies on 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 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.
language: English
title: Bruno Munari: Square, Circle, Triangle
publisher: Princeton Architectural Press