ARTH 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Jon Jerde, Ridley Scott, Wayfinding
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Modernism gets blamed for disregarding human needs, harsh all tubular steel and what not, harsh diagonals in graphics blamed for not blending. About a deep exploration about what something is by taking it apart. Embrace pop culture, the cheap and the luxurious (reading) las vegas is. Appropriation : act of taking something for use. Taking without permission often times making something, youre highlighting the fact that it was made in the first place. Using past and giving new meaning for contemporary life. Dapper dans louis vitton leather and turning it into track suit. Borrowing and subverting using with a wink and a nod. Conceptual exploration round a bout return to craft by taking apart and. Historicism : post modernists want to use this in their designs reject the timeless. Continuity of the past finding inspiration in the past and think it shouldn"t.
