Ornament und Versprechen: Postmoderne und Memphis Im Ruckblick - Hardcover

Fischer, Volker

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3932565452 ISBN 13: 9783932565458

Publisher: Edition Axel Menges, 2005

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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 für Gestaltung in Offenbach.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edition Axel Menges
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3932565452
• ISBN 13: 9783932565458
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 64