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Design and Modernism

Design and Modernism. Le Corbusier Contextualised Andrea Peach. A Great epoch has begun. There exists a new spirit. Towards a New Architecture Le Corbusier 1927. Modernism.

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Design and Modernism

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  1. Design and Modernism Le Corbusier Contextualised Andrea Peach

  2. A Great epoch has begun. There exists a new spirit. Towards a New Architecture Le Corbusier 1927

  3. Modernism Dominant ideology throughout western industrialised world in art, design and architecture for most of the twentieth century

  4. 19th century: Ornament & Decoration …

  5. If we challenge the past we shall learn that ‘styles’ no longer exist for us, that a style belonging to our own period has come about; and there has been a Revolution. Towards a New Architecture Le Corbusier 1927

  6. Die Wohnung Stuttgart 1927

  7. Adolf Loos 1928 Essay on Ornament and Crime: Evolution is synonymous with the removal of ornament from objects of everyday use

  8. Adolf Loos 1928 Steiner House - Vienna, Austria

  9. A house has to fulfill two purposes. First it is a machine for living in, that is, a machine to provide us with efficient help for speed and accuracy in our work, a diligent and helpful machine which should satisfy all our physical needs: comfort. But it should also be a place conducive to meditation, and lastly, a beautiful place, bringing much needed tranquility to the mind. 1923 Le Corbusier Cook House, Paris, 1926

  10. Machine Art exhibition at Museum of Modern Art in New York 1934 The beauty of machine art is in part the abstract beauty of straight lines and circles made into actual tangible surfaces and solids by means of lathes, rulers and squares

  11. Industry, overwhelming us like a flood which rolls on towards its destined ends, has furnished us with new tools adapted to this new epoch, animated by the new spirit. Le Corbusier - Towards a New Architecture

  12. Russian Constructivist printed textile c 1920

  13. Le Corbusier 1929 Metal plays the same part in furniture as cement has done in architecture. It is a revolution.

  14. The machinery of Society, profoundly out of gear, oscillates between an amelioration, of historical importance, and a catastrophe. Le Corbusier - Towards a New Architecture

  15. If we eliminate from our hearts and minds all dead concepts in regard to the house, and look at the question from a critical and objective point of view, we shall arrive at the ‘House Machine’ Le Corbusier Villa Savoye 1928-31

  16. We must create the mass-production spirit. The spirit of constructing mass-production houses. The spirit of living in mass-production houses. The spirit of conceiving mass-production houses. Le Corbusier Unitéd’Habitation, Marseilles 1947-52

  17. It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of to-day: architecture or revolution Le Corbusier Unitéd’Habitation, Marseilles 1947-52

  18. Weissenhof Seidlung, Stuttgart 1927 Walter Gropius / Marcel Breuer Mies van der Rohe

  19. Marcel Breuer 1931 This metal furniture is intended to be nothing but a necessary apparatus for contemporary life

  20. Modernist Design Objects should be: Simple, honest and direct Well adapted to their purpose No ornament

  21. Modernist Design Standardised Machine-made Reasonably priced Expressive of their structure and materials

  22. Marcel Breuer 1926 Nesting Tables Germany Nickel-plated steel and lacquered wood

  23. Mies van der Rohe 1927 Cantilever Chair Germany Chrome-plated tubular steel, oil cloth

  24. 1946 “Here is gay, sparkling furniture that brings new beauty and charm into your kitchen … it’s the kind that seems to stay new looking indefinitely” Howell ‘Chromasteel’ USA

  25. Greta von Nessen 1952 ‘Anywhere lamp’ Germany Aluminum and enameled metal

  26. 2008 … Ocean - Bianco Table / Gamma Chairs - chromed tubular steel frame

  27. Modernism A term used to refer to the principle that nothing is included in a design that does not enhance the object’s purpose

  28. Marianne Brandt 1924 Tea infuser Germany, Bauhaus

  29. Metal is cold and brutally hard... It gives no comfort to the eye John Gloag 1929

  30. “Modern carpet designs may provide endless entertainment for your friends” Heath Robinson 1936

  31. “De Staalstoelophoon” 1934

  32. The end of modernism…? The Titanic - Photomontage Stanley Tigerman, 1978, USA

  33. Alessandro Mendini 1978 1925 “Redesign of Modern Movement Chairs” Wassily by Breuer, Italy

  34. The end of modernism ... ?

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