28 Mar world’s fairs
30 arts + crafts
1 Apr re-form : surface vs. substance
The arts and crafts movement as said by Massey was the most important design reform movement to affect the interior in the nineteenth century. This movement strongly influenced the concept of what an interior should appear to be with contradictions or comparisons to the exterior. It brought about the idea of surface decoration dominance and encouraged the use of original craftsmanship. The arts and crafts movement created a new light on interior design allowing the orientation of and interior to incorporate styles and decorations from different time periods brought together to create and interior of its own with out precedent. This movement encouraged interior design as a different organization of ideas than the architectural building and brought about the inspiration of specialist in interior decoration.
4 influences on design: art movements
6 searching for a style
8 the implications of war
During the 19th century England utilized colonization to establish itself as the world power using political intimidation and military force as a way of disempowering surrounding nations. Paris during this time undertook the rebuilding of the center of the city inspiring the United States to begin the City Beautiful movement. This movement instigated the development of monumental buildings, trains stations and courthouses. Its goal in a way seems to have been to make cities more appealing and inviting, to take away the appearance of its intentions and industrialization of it all and to bring beauty back into the equation as well as nature.
11 multiple modernisms
13 criticisms
15 the Scandinavians
Modernism; an architectural style either accepted or rejected by architects in the past and present. It is the abstraction of simple forms, often-geometrical shapes and an architectural design without precedent or at the time guidelines. Modernism was and is a style that was built off of experimentation and often emphasizing the architectural building and its extremities more so than the use of which it was intended for. Some architects such as Mies Van Der Rohe and Le Corbusier not only took the first steps in the creation modernism but thought it genius as an art and took it upon themselves to encourage the movement across the world. Where is others such as Hans Wegner believed in more of the functionality of things through simplicity rather than the so-called artistic appeal. The Scandinavians believed in the simplicity of an object made specifically for its use and within these guidelines the design develops.
18 two views of design
25 more reactions
In the two views of design we discussed the right of passage to become a designer; through education or experience? In the means of becoming a designer it truly relies on the person, their talents and capabilities and the way that they best develop and establish themselves. Every designer is different through their backgrounds, their inspirations and their goals, making every style, movement or trend in the past reinterpreted into the future as whatever the designer conceives through his or her own interpretations. In any case a designer must find his or her own way in order to establish themselves into the opportunities that may lie ahead.
Through all of the design movements in this unit we learned of the importance of the past influential designs designers and design explorations that bring us to what we have today. Every aspect of design is a result of the past through its technological advances to new ways of thinking about design as a whole. All of which bring us to the endless possibilities of design today and what we have in stored in our futures.
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