HECOL201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Deskilling, Century Gothic, The Great Exhibition
30 Sep 2016
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The great exhibition 1851 london ! result of the fact that britain was beginning to produce some ugly, cheap goods that didn"t hold up to the promise of mass production - make money, commerce. Great exhibition 1851 london : 1st international world"s fair" ! engineering) ! had a teaching function - wanted to improve public taste by showing technologically right solutions, right products to buy - like a lecture or lesson ! Britain started to found and create design schools in the 19th century ! until early 1920s arts had a super position above the applied arts - design ! Joseph paxton - gardener, engineer ! new materials - iron and glass, looks like an enormous greenhouse, had not yet been utilized in. Britain ! functional, undecorated, standardized, prefabricated - put together all component parts at the site, ! largest building of its time: 1848 ft long by 454 ft wide; !
