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The World as Design

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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

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ISBN: 9783433031179
Publication date: 11th March 2015
Author: Otl Aicher
Publisher: Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn Verlag fur Architektur und technische Wissenschaften an imprint of Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 190 pages
Genres: Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration
Architecture
The arts: general issues