Is there a need to return to Modernism within design principles?
Modernism in Design -
Contemporary
Anti-historicism
Truth to materials
Form follows function
Technology
Nature
Everything lives in balance
Organising the world based on rationality, reason and logic
Perfect unitarian society
Utopian and progressive
Invent, doesn't look backwards for the worlds problems
Embracing the new
True to its materials
Solves a problem first and lets aesthetic elements follow, the beauty is in the solution
Internationalism
Completely neutral and outside of national character
Aesthetics stripped back to be totally universal
The international style
Collectiveness over Individualism
Democracy over war
The struggle for rebalancing the world
Art and culture against war and nationalism
Neutralising unnecessary design
Timeless value in oppose to transience
This movement had goals and attempted to solve problems which are still alive today
move away from realism, but to reality
Bauhaus, collectivisation and unity within all fields of creative design, Fusion of disciplinary collectivism, Nazis closed it down due to their cultural imperialist ideologies
Design as an alternative form of literacy
Herbert Bayer (1925) Universal Typeface
Marcel Breuer (1929) Cesca Chair
Van Doesburg (1929) Simultaneous Counter-Composition
Helvetica Documentary - Special Features
Manifest I of,, The Style", 1918
The Crystal Goblet by beatrice Wardle (1900 - 1969)
Wine metaphor, raw gold goblet vs clear crystal
Postmodern culture
15th July 1972, 3:32pm
Modernism dies, according to Charles Jencks
Jencks, C. (1988) What is Postmodernism?, London: St Martins Press.
Pessimism
Pluralism
Cynicism
Artistic and stylistic eclecticism
Exhaustion
Disillusionment with the idea of absolute knowledge
Lack of vision
Jokey scnere at modernism
Marinetti, F.T. (1909) Manifesto of Futurism
Nihilistic form of modernism
Destructive potential of Modernism
Fascism
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