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The adherents of machine aesthetic called for elimination of traditional for architecture (and furniture design) structural distinctions between load and support. For example, in the Red and Blue Chair (1917) the (red) back plays the role of the load (supported by a crossbar underneath the seat) and provides support for the arms at the same ...
Retrofuturism (adjective retrofuturistic or retrofuture) is a movement in the creative arts showing the influence of depictions of the future produced in an earlier era. If futurism is sometimes called a "science" bent on anticipating what will come, retrofuturism is the remembering of that anticipation. [ 1]
Design history is the study of objects of design in their historical and stylistic contexts. [ 1] With a broad definition, the contexts of design history include the social, the cultural, the economic, the political, the technical and the aesthetic. Design history has as its objects of study all designed objects including those of architecture ...
Due to the nature of critique, the philosophy of architecture is an outgrowth of the philosophy of art, which began to be expressed in books on architecture and history of architecture during the latter half of the twentieth century. [2] Prior to that, largely because of its reliance on technology and engineering, architecture was seen as ...
Technical Aesthetics. Issue 4, 1987, featuring Dmitry Azrikan's Sphinx (СФИНКС) Technical Aesthetics (Техническая эстетика in Russian) was a Soviet monthly magazine published between January 1964 and July 1992 dedicated to questions of design with peak distribution of 30,000 copies. [1] It was edited by the VNIITE, the ...
Modular design. A laptop that is designed to be modular. Modular design, or modularity in design, is a design principle that subdivides a system into smaller parts called modules (such as modular process skids ), which can be independently created, modified, replaced, or exchanged with other modules or between different systems.
The Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers the usage and design of materials for application in engineering. The journal was established in 1999 and is published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the Institution of Mechanical ...
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