Renaissance and Modernist approaches to letter design share a common reliance on geometry as a mediating structure between writing and architecture, though they deploy it with very different intentions.
Revisiting Renaissance letter construction manuals and Modernist typographic and architectural models, this talk examines how geometry evolved from an idealizing analytical tool into a constructive language for shaping the modern world. These historical frameworks are distilled in the architectural lettering of Enric Miralles (1955–2000), whose drawings dissolve the distinction between writing, technical lettering, and architectural form.
By examining Miralles’s plans and their later typographic interpretations, Manuel Sesma’s lecture reopens the question of lettering as an integral component of architectural design.
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