The Sense of Unity
Cameron Poulter, Joseph Alderfer, Chicago, Illinois, 1973
Description
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.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1974)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Art directors
- Cameron Poulter, Joseph Alderfer
- Designer
- Joseph Alderfer
- Illustrator
- Nader Ardalan
- Photographer
- Nader Ardalan
- Authors
- Nader Ardalan, Laleh Bakitar
- Size
- 12 x 12 inches
- Pages
- 172
- Quantity printed
- edition of 2,500
- Price
- $17.50
- Typeface
- Monotype Univers Light 685, 10/12, with display in Monotype Univers Light 685
- Typesetter
- William Clowes & Sons, Ltd.
- Printer
- Photopress, Inc.
- Printing method
- offset
- Paper
- Patina II (Warren), 60 lb., White
- Paper supplies
- Hobert McIntosh Paper Company
- Binder
- Rand McNally & Company
- Binding method
- bound in pre-printed Kivar I (Scott) on 80 pt. binder’s board
- Quantity printed
- Smyth sewn, square back
- Endpapers
- Multicolor (Process Materials) Cafe
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
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