Thursday, April 10, 2008

Lecture 2 - Modernism - Designing a New World

Causes
-Aftermath of WWI/Russian Revolution
-Rejection of History

-was experimental to start.

Pre Modernism
-Baroque 1600-1700
- emotional, curvilinear, ornamental
-Industrialisation
-confusion of old styles and new styles, still decorative and ornamental "Dilema of Style"

-William Morris
-pioneer of modernism
-defended craftmansshio and materiallity rather than mass production
- "change society through design"

-Louis Sullivan
-Frank Loyd Wright
-The Deutsher Werkbund (German Workband)
-Peter Behrens
-Walter Gropius & Adolf Meyer

1918 - WWI begins, KEY POINT BEGINNING OF MODERNISM

-Searching for Utopia

-Russian Constructavism
-Italian Futurism

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