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| 20th Century Design Schools |
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Bauhaus; first arts and crafts school "House of Construction"
Walter Gropious.The Bauhaus had a profound influence upon subsequent developments in art, architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design, and typography. |
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| Early 20th century styles in art: the revolutionary ideas and styles in art, architecture, and literature that developed in the early 20th century as a reaction to traditional forms |
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| design of workplace or equipment: those factors or qualities in the design of something, especially a workplace or equipment used by people at work, that contribute to comfort, efficiency, safety, and ease of use |
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| ts main objective was improving economic efficiency, especially labor productivity. It was one of the earliest attempts to apply science to the engineering of processes and to management. |
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| The International Movement |
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| The International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus was a small European avant-garde artistic tendency that arose out of the breakup of COBRA, and was initiated by contact between former COBRA member Asger Jorn and Enrico Baj and Sergio Dangelo of the Nuclear Art Movement |
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make something more efficient: to make something such as a business, organization, or manufacturing process more efficient, especially by simplifying or modernizing it
design or build with smooth shape: to design or build something with a smooth shape so that it moves with minimum resistance through air or water |
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| style developed in reaction to modernism: a style in architecture, art, literature, and criticism developed after and often in reaction to modernism, characterized by reference to other periods or styles in a self-conscious way and a rejection of the notion of high art |
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| maintaining ecological balance: exploiting natural resources without destroying the ecological balance of an area |
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| Free market controls production of goods |
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| International philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—it was inspired by natural forms and structures, not only in flowers and plants, but also in curved lines. Architects tried to harmonize with the natural environment. |
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| was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture |
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| was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1000 structures and completed 532 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. |
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| Brazil.was a Brazilian architect who is considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was best known for his design of civic buildings for Brasília, a planned city that became Brazil's capital in 1960 |
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founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, and one of the major architectural figures in the twentieth century. Together with his wife and partner, Denise Scott Brown, he helped to shape the way that architects, planners and students experience and think about architecture and the American built environment
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| Charles and Ray Eames (married) |
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| Modern furniture architects. Such as the fiberglass and plastic resin chairs and the wire mesh chairs designed for Herman Miller. interest in photography into the production of short films. From their first film, the unfinished Traveling Boy (1950), to Powers of Ten |
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| Space photographer. Modern photographer. |
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| English technical draftsman best known for creating the present London Underground Tube map in 1931.[2] Beck drew up the diagram in his spare time while working as an engineering draftsman at the London Underground Signals Office. |
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| Frank and Lillian Gilbreth |
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| The "Time and Motion" approach could be applied to the bricklaying and the transportation. The building itself was also required to support efficient input and output of deliveries via its own railroad switching facilities.[1] |
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| Industrial designer. Wagenfeld Lampe, 1924, which he designed together with Karl J. Jucker. |
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| sought to establish a new architectural style that could represent modern times just as Classical and Gothic did for their own eras. He created an influential twentieth-century architectural style, stated with extreme clarity and simplicity |
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| designer and educator who became a strong advocate of the socially and ecologically responsible design of products, tools, and community infrastructures. |
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Design like wall is peeling off on buildings. Or crumbling to the ground.
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| art director and graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs, including the logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, Morningstar, Inc., Westinghouse, ABC |
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| Modernist Movement. At first, he worked as a painter, illustrator and book-binder in a sort of artisanal way. architectural reform at the turn of the century and was a major designer of factories and office buildings in brick, steel and glass. |
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