The world as design /
Aicher, Otl,
The world as design / [Book] / Otl Aicher ; with an introduction by Wolfgang Jean Stock. - Second edition. - 192 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
English language edition of 'Die welt als entwurf'. "Translation: Michael Robinson." -- title page verso. Formerly CIP.
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.
All.
9783433031179 (paperback) 9783433605844 9783433605837 9783433605820 9783433605851
GBB542519 bnb
017134064 Uk
Design--History--20th century.
Industrial design--History--20th century.
745.20904
The world as design / [Book] / Otl Aicher ; with an introduction by Wolfgang Jean Stock. - Second edition. - 192 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
English language edition of 'Die welt als entwurf'. "Translation: Michael Robinson." -- title page verso. Formerly CIP.
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.
All.
9783433031179 (paperback) 9783433605844 9783433605837 9783433605820 9783433605851
GBB542519 bnb
017134064 Uk
Design--History--20th century.
Industrial design--History--20th century.
745.20904