Rudolf Arnheim, Peter Seitz [Editor]: DESIGN QUARTERLY 64: The Dynamics of Shape. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1966. Original edition. Slim quarto. Saddle stitched thick printed wrappers. 32 pp. 51 black and white illustrations. Wrappers lightly worn, but a nearly fine copy.
8.5 x 11 soft cover book with 32 pages and 51 black and white illustrations. Application of the psychology of perception as it applies to contemporary architecture, industrial design, interior design and engineering. With biographical sketch of the author.
Includes work by Minoru Yamasaki and Assoc. (World Trade Center), Herbert Krenchel (bowls), Carl Fagerlund (pendant lights), I.M. Pei and Assoc. (Kips Bay Plaza), Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill (Harry A. Conte Elementary School; U.S. Airforce Academy stairs; with Walter Netsch—US Airforce Chapel, Colorado Springs), Mies van der Rohe (One Charles Center, Baltimore, MD; Brno chair, Barcelona chair; daybed), Eero Saarinen (TWA Terminal, Kennedy Intnl. Airport; Morse College Dormitories, Yale University; table and chairs), Arne Jacobsen (stairs from A. Jespersen & Son, place setting), Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen & Assoc. (I.B.M Information Machine, New York World’s Fair), Lippincott & Margulies (Johnson Wax Golden Rondelle, New York World’s Fair), Robert Benham Becker (table), Amman & Whitney (Verrazano Narrows Bridge), Le Corbusier (Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University), Paul Rudolph (School of Art and Architecture, Yale University; Temple Street Parking Garage, New Haven, CT), Hans Hendricksen (salt and pepper shakers), Kay Bojesen (covered casserole), Voss (place setting), Ferdinand Porsche (car), Bertrand Goldberg Assoc. (Marina Towers, Chicago); George Nelson (Detroit Institute of Art; Swag chair; lights), Charles Eames (chair), Kristian Vedel (chair), David Weinrib (planters), Frank Lloyd Wright (Guggenheim Museum; Grady Gammage Memorial Stadium; Fallingwater), Nathan Shapira (light), Estelle and Erwine Laverne (Lotus and Tulip chairs), Pier Luigi Nervi (George Washington Bridge Bus Station), and Ralph Rapson (Tyrone Guthrie Theatre).
Design Quarterly began as Everyday Art Quarterly, published by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis starting in 1946. The editorial focus aimed to bring modern design to the masses through thoughtful examination of household objects and their designers. Everyday Art Quarterly was a vocal proponent of the Good Design movement (as represented by MoMA and Chicago's Merchandise Mart) and spotlighted the best in industrial and handcrafted design. When the magazine became Design Quarterly in 1958, the editors assumed a more international flair in their selection of material to spotlight.
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