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WK 7: Scandinavians : Nordic Funkis + Modernism

Texts   each link back to course materials found on bb.cazenovia.edu The story of Design:  The Scandinavian Approaches The story of Design:  Good Form and the West German Economic Miracle Dieter Rams: 10 Principles of Good Design Architectural Digest: Dieter Rams is having a New Moment: Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibition --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Modernist / International Style / Scandinavia During WWII and post, architects and designers in Germany, France and Switzerland embraced 'hard-edge' aesthetic... While in Scaninavia a gentler interpretation of the International Style was being created. Why? Turn of the 20th c. the Scandinavians looked towards National Romanticism and folk / craft ideals, similiar to the influences of the Arts & Crafts Movement on Britian post WWII Carl Larsson : 1898 illustration Turn of the century Swedish Carl Lar

Course Calendar re-post #1

WK 5 MID CENTURY MODERN *  MON, FEB 25 “Sex and the Suffrage Movement: What Does Sex Have to Do with the Suffrage Movement?” Washburn Lecture by Dr. Susan Goodier, MacDonald Lecture Hall, 2:45 PM TU FEB 26 Overview: What is Mid Century Modernism?  Have your collaborative groups finalized TH FEB 28 - Good Design Museum Exhibitions 1940-1950s - Metropolitan Museum of Art > "Organic Design Competition" - Advertising and marketing, educating the public - Modern interior design moves out of residential and into the corporate world *MAR 01 Trip Installment #3/4 WK 6 Mid Century Modernism in America Good Design TU MAR 05    Charles & Ray Eames, Nelson,                               Henry Miller & Knoll                        Film:  The Architect and the Painter  1:24 TH MAR 07 SQHAP visit  The House that Dorothy Built                      sqhap.org  Meet at Park Parking lot for the van                      (Story of Design p. 348 -361)