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    <title>Geometry of Design</title>
    <subTitle>studies in proportion and composition</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Elam, Kimberly</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1951-</namePart>
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    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2001</dateIssued>
    <edition>2d.ed</edition>
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    <extent>143 p. ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm. 9 transparencies.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Table of Contents :
Introduction 5 --
Portion in Man and Nature:
Cognitive Proportion Prefences 6 --
Proportion and Nature 8 --
Human Body Proportions in Classical Sculpture 12 --
Human Body Proportions in Classical Drawing 14 --
Facial Proportions 18 --
Architectural Propotions:
Architectural Proportions 20 --
Le Corbusier’s Regulating Lines 22 --
Golden Section:
Construction of the Golden Section Rectangle 24 --
Golden Section Proportions 27 --
Golden Section and the Fibonacci Sequence 29 --
Golden Section Triangle and Ellipse 30 --
Golden Section Dynamic Rectangles 32 --
Root Rectangles:
Root 2 Rectangle Construction 34 --
DIN System of Paper Proportioning 36 --
Root  2 Dynamic Rectangles 37 --
Root 3 Rectangle 38 --
Root 4 Rectangle 40 --
Root 5 Rectangle 41 --
Comparison of Root Rectangles 42 --
The Process of Geometric  Analysis:
Tauromaquia 20 Print 46 --
Racehorses at Longchamp 50 --
Ghent, Evening Painting 52 --
Geometric Analysis:
Thonet Vienna Chair #14 54 --
Folies Bergére Poster 56 --
Bathing at Asnières Painting 58 --
 Job Poster 62 --
Ball at the Moulin Rogue Painting 64 --
La Goulue Arriving at the Moulin Rogue with Two Women Painting 66 --
Argyle Chair 68 --
Hill House Chair 69 --
Willow Tea Room Chair 70 --
Bauhaus Ausstellung Poster 72 --
L’Intransigéant Poster 74 --
East Coast by L.N.E.R. Poster 78 --
MR Chair 80 --
Barcelona Chair 82 --
Chaise Lounge 84 --
Brno Chair 86 --
Wagon Bar Poster 88 --
Konstruktivisten Poster 90 --
Barrel Chair 92 --
S. C. Johnson Chair 94 --
Der Berufsphotograph Poster 98 --
Max Bill Font 100 --
Farnsworth House 102 --
Plywood Chair 104 --
Philip Johnson Glass House 106 --
Illinois Institute of Technology Chapel 110 --
Tulip Chair 112 --
Vanna Venturi House 114 --
Vormgevers Poster 118 --
Fürstenberg Porzellan Poster 120 --
1972 Munich Olympics Pictograms 122 --
LEB, London Electricity Board 124 --
Majakovskij Poster 126 --
Braun Handblender 128 --
Braun Aromaster Coffee Maker 130 --
II Conico Kettle 132 --
Volkswagen Beetle 134 --
Postscript 137 --
Acknowledgments 138 --
Image &amp; Photo Credits 138 --
Selected Bibliography 140 --
Index 141 --



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  <note type="statement of responsibility">Kimberly Elam.</note>
  <note>Include index.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. 104) and index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Proportion Art</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Art, Modern</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Composition Art</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Fibonacci numbers</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Golden section</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">N7431.5 E44 2001 c.1</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">1568982496 (pbk.)</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">9781616890360</identifier>
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