Editor: Stefan Sagmeister
Publisher: Mainz. Verlag Hermann Schmidt
Publication: 2018, First Edition
Binding: Softcover, section sewn
Pages: 278
Size: 175 x 245
Text: English
ISBN: 3874399222
(Introduction) 'Beauty as the height of aesthetic achievement has fallen out of favor. In the design world today, most respected practitioners claim not to be interested in it. Artists avoid it so as not to have their work labeled decorative or commercial. One can leaf through stacks of architecture books without seeing the term mentioned. At one time a universal aspiration, the pursuit of beauty came to a crash landing at the beginning of the twentieth century.Since then, design schools have proselytized modernist principles, which privilege uniformity, the grid, rectangular compositions, and a preference for black, white, and beige. The approach to designing buildings, products, and graphics became purely analytical, the choice of materials entirely rational, the goal exclusively functional. Architects and designers often went to such extremes that they wound up designing everything with a psychotic sameness. Housing blocks built in the 1950s were dynamited decades later, unable to perform the single function for which they were created: providing human habitation...'
Condition: Very Good. Shelf ware consistent with age. Light rubbing and marking to cover/edges.
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