Bruno Munari: Circle Square Triangle Gifts2025 presaging many of the subjects

presaging many of the subjects and themes in his later work

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Bruno Munari: Circle Square Triangle Gifts2025 presaging many of the subjectsIn 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