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August 13, 2015

THE LESS FAMOUS BY THE FAMOUS

We have been following two modernist phenomenons in these pages, the Weisenhof housing estate and Le Corbusier. Put those two together, and we see what Corb built for the housing project. I always find...

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November 11, 2014

WEISENHOF HOUSING ESTATE

During the birth of modernism, the Weisenhof Housing exhibition has loomed large as a historical marker. In 1927, between the wars, the German government mounted the Deutcher Werkbund exhibition. This exhibition was established so...

“Aesthetic experience, being a free activity, must be as unhampered as possible by the materially given, that is, as close as possible to unmediated intuition.” Sonesson.

“For Kandinsky, abstraction did not mean reducing a realistic scene down to its essential formal elements. Rather, it means an inductive process of building a scene by combining the ‘graphic elements’ – the fundamental building blocks of painting, such as points, lines, planes, color, texture,, and so forth – in a certain way.” Zettl.

“I’m likewise calling for a renewed visual culture of the object— for a new focus on visual form as a site of rich rhetorical material.” Atzmon,

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