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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good bright condition. No notes or highlighting. Cover has some wear and light marking. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The first edition of the MODULOR was sold out very quickly. The MODULOR has had a friendly recep- tion throughout the world. Architects everywhere have recognized in it not a mystique but a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form with the simple aim as Professor Einstein has put it so well of ‘making the bad difficult and the good easy’. The MODULOR is a scale. they make music which may be trite or beautiful. Musicians have a scale A significant event occurred just as the first edition of the MODULOR was sold out: at the ninth Trien- nale in Milan a book exhibition was organized with the assistance of the Italian National Libraries and of the Biblioth?que Nationale of Paris. The purpose was to compare the studies carried out in different countries through the ages in the search for the disciplines which are at the root of every plastic work both artistically and scientifically. Thus it was possible to see together for the first time the works of Villard de Honnecourt (thirteenth century) Francesco di Giorgio Piero de la Francesca and the original editions of Luca Pacioli D?rer Alberti Delorme Campano Barbaro Cousin Serlio Palladio Leonardo Galilei Descartes etc… and also the highly up-to-date works of Speiser Kayser Wittkower Lund Ghyka etc. This exhibition ended with a graphic demonstration of the MODULOR at the request of the President of the Triennale Signor Ivan Matteo Lombardo. “The MODULOR’ he wrote ‘is the pivot around which revolve all the problems of proportion in modern architecture.’ From the 26th to the 29th of September 1951 the Triennale organized the First International Meeting De Divina Proportione’ attended by scholars mathematicians aestheticians architects and artists from closed to set up a permanent study group (LL)