COP 1 Lecture 11 - Modernism and Modernity Part 2

-Anti historicism - inventive, progressive, pushing things forward

- Truth to materials

- Form follows function

- Celebrating new technology

- Internationalism

- "Ornament is crime"

- 1958 - Seagram building

- 1938-78 - Quarry Hill Flats -  Leeds - universal design not working

- London Underground map - bare essentials to make it easier for people to use

- 1930 -  Laszle Moholy Nagy - changing the way we see film making

- 1917 - Russian revolution, modernize the waysociety is

- El Lissitzky -  white with a red wedge

- 1925 - Odessa Stepd - new way to make films

- 1925 - Paris expo USSR pavilion purpose built modern building

- Vkhutemas -  art school

- Modernism =  failed -  pushed elements too far, it began to lack individuality - dehumanised and everyone became the same