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Design Category
Book design, 1973
Art directors
Cameron Poulter, Joseph Alderfer
Collection
(1974) Fifty Books of the Year
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This is the first study of traditional Islamic architecture of Persia from the point of view of the central doctrine of “unity in multiplicity”. The author’s show how space, shape, surface, color, and matter are integrated to express the concept of unity. The design of the book is based on “the magic square”, a nine=square grid symbolic in Islamic tradition. Colors used are also symbolic: White=light’ Black=the absence of light; Sandlewood—earth, neutrality, the floor of the architect.