Title: Ornament und Versprechen: Postmoderne und Memphis Im Ruckblick [Hardcover] [Jan 20, 2005] Fischer, Volker
Publisher: UNKNO
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3932565452
ISBN 13: 9783932565458
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New

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TEXT IN GERMAN. The title of the publication is intended as an allusion to the virtually manifesto-like treatise 'Ornament und Verbrechen' of 1908 by the Viennese architect Adolf Loos. For more than six decades -- from the Deutscher Werkbund and the Bauhaus to the Ulm School and Functionalism -- this influential document effectively legitimized the taboo on every kind of decoration and ornamentation. Our title thus calls attention to the change of perspective unanimously adopted by architecture and product design primarily in the 1980s. Both Postmodernism and Memphis -- two movements which today exhibit greater similarities than differences -- were above all aesthetic reactions to Functionalism, which they considered cold, technocratic and one-sidedly rational.

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The internationally known architecture and design historian Volker Fischer was deputy director of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt am Main for over ten years. Since 1995 he has built up a new design department in the Museum for Applied Arts in Frankfurt; in addition to his museum work he teaches history of architecture and design at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Offenbach.

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