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The World as Design: Writings of Design

By Aicher , Otl; Stock , Wolfgang Jean

Book information

Publisher
Ernst & Sohn
Year
2015
ISBN
978-3-433-03117-9, 978-3-433-60584-4, 978-3-433-60583-7, 978-3-433-60582-0, 978-3-433-60585-1, 3433031177, 3433605823, 3433605831, 343360584X, 3433605858
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
989 kB (1012484 bytes)
Series
Edition Axel Menges
Edition
2
Pages
190\191
Time added
2016-01-24 03:00:00
Design History 20th century Industrial design ART

Description

Otl Aicher's writings are explorations of the world, a substantive part of his work. In moving through the history of thought and design, building and construction, he assures us of the possibilities of arranging existence in a humane fashion. As ever he is concerned with the question of the conditions needed to produce a civilised culture. These conditions have to be fought for against apparent factual or material constraints and spiritual and intellectual substitutes on offer. Otl Aicher likes a dispute. For this reason, the volume contains polemical statements on cultural and political subjects as well as practical reports and historical exposition. He fights with productive obstinacy, above all for the renewal of Modernism, which he claims has largely exhausted itself in aesthetic visions; he insists the ordinary working day is still more important than the "cultural Sunday". Wolfgang Jean Stock

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