In the early 1960s Italian designer Bruno Munari published his visual case studies on shapes: The Circle, The Square, and, a decade later, The 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.
Three iconic books (The Square, The Circle, The Triangle) brought together in a single volume that becomes an extraordinary small encyclopedia in which Bruno Munari collects and describes dozens of uses of these fascinating and mysterious shapes across the centuries, with drawings and reflections that move between history, anthropology, and the natural sciences.
