SP2019FA309.MidCenturyModernDesign&Thought

In preparation for our trip to Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, MAR 7th, please familiarize yourself digitally with the mid-century designed home by Dorothy Riester and built in 1959. The house is on the National Register of Historic Places Program.  Link to > Dorothy Riester Home & Studio National Register of Historic Places Program  The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation's historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America's historic and archeological resources. RE: NRHP Link to > Stone Quarry Hill Art Park The Dorothy Riester House and Studio is significant under Criterion C as a highly intact example of a mid-twentieth century modern

100 years of Bauhaus Videos! Thanks Claire!! ThURS FEB 28 -- Nelson -- Miller Knoll Good Design Exhibits -- 1940-mid 50 Met - Organic Design Advertising war + Modern design falls into commercial -- office furntirue corporate design work Tues March 5 EAMES, KNOLL and others St. Louis Arch Sculpture  -- Nougchi film 10 minute clip Eames / splint -- factory chairs TH TRIP MARCH 7 > PARK LOT

This week we will begin our investigation of what has come to be referred to and recognized by many as 'mid-century modern.' We will begin this week with a general overview, discussing how the principles of modernism came to be adopted generally in mass culture and became an integral feature of consumer society in the years following WWII. In the weeks that follow, we will focus on modern design in the US and in Europe specifically. Reading Assignment For next week, be sure to make it through at least the first three links posted in the Course Materials area and to check Professor Pepper's blog before class. The fourth link in the content area provides a more detailed account of the evolution of modern design and principle designers and will be referenced over this and the next several weeks. Written Assignment As with previous weeks, your written assignment should reflect the main topics discussed during the week. In this case, it should communicat