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• Title:Geometry of design : studies in proportion and composition / Kimberly Elam.
  
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• Author/Creator:Elam, Kimberly, 1951-
  
• Published/Created:New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2011.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N7431.5 .E44 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Proportion (Art)
  Composition (Art)
  Golden section.
  Art, Modern--20th century.
  Design--History--20th century.
  
• Edition:2nd ed., rev. and updated.
  
• Description:143 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
  
• Series:Design briefs.
  
• Summary:Using detailed diagrams and vellum overlays, explains how the science of measurement informs and creates beauty in nature and art and how we can use these techniques to create beauty in our own designs.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781616890360 (alk. paper)
  1616890363 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Proportion in Man and Nature
  Cognitive Proportion Preferences
  Proportion and Nature
  Human Body Proportions in Classical Sculpture
  Human Body Proportions in Classical Drawing
  Facial Proportions
  Architectural Proportions
  Architectural Proportions
  Le Corbusier's Regulating Lines
  Golden Section
  Construction of the Golden Section Rectangle
  Golden Section Proportions
  Golden Section and the Fibonacci Sequence
  Golden Section Triangle and Ellipse
  Golden Section Dynamic Rectangles
  Root Rectangles
  Root 2 Rectangle Construction
  DIN System of Paper Proportioning
  Root 2 Dynamic Rectangles
  Root 3 Rectangle
  Root 4 Rectangle
  Root 5 Rectangle
  Comparison of Root Rectangles
  Process of Geometric Analysis
  Tauromaquia 20 Print
  Racehorses at Longchamp
  Ghent, Evening Painting
  Geometric Analysis
  Thonet Vienna Chair #14
  Folies-Bergere Poster
  Bathing at Asnieres Painting
  Job Poster
  Ball at the Moulin Rouge Painting
  La Goulue Arriving at the Moulin Rouge with Two Women Painting
  Argyle Chair
  Hill House Chair
  Willow Tea Room Chair
  Bauhaus Ausstellung Poster
  L'Intransigeant Poster
  East Coast / L.N.E.R. Poster
  MR Chair
  Barcelona Chair
  Chaise Longue
  Brno Chair
  Wagon-Bar Poster
  Konstruktivisten Poster
  Barrel Chair
  S. C. Johnson Chair
  Der Berufsphotograph Poster
  Max Bill Font
  Farnsworth House
  Plywood Chair
  Philip Johnson Glass House
  Illinois Institute of Technology Chapel
  Tulip Chair
  Vanna Venturi House
  Vormgevers Poster
  Furstenberg Porzellan Poster
  1972 Munich Olympics Pictograms
  LEB, London Electricity Board
  Majakovskij Poster
  Braun Handblender
  Braun Aromaster Coffee Maker
  II Conico Kettle
  Volkswagen Beetle.