Putting It Together 3

The first theme is being inspired and moved by the art of the past centuries. People looked into the art of the time and took onto that as the new modern and the look for their interior design piece. Art can bring about things like geometry, color, inspiration from foreign countries and much more to follow and carry into the designs. Art Noveau art becomes a huge impactful feature and was easily transferred into design. They used straight lines or curved and geometric looks based on the art. The art inspiration inspires mostly the objects that are used within the design. Objects such as the furnishing, furniture, and finishes with texture. Art inspires also personal objects and he way they are shaped and seen in the moving pictures where the movies were still in black and white. The picture below shows a scene from a movie with inspiration from art. Art is seen as an inspiration through the buildings. The easiest way that I earned and understood this was looking at the tall building, the Empire State Building, within New York. The tallest building in the world become a focus on straight lines and scale through art and what they saw represented in the art.

Another theme that is talked about in the online lecture is the idea for a good design for all. Designer recognized this idea and realized that different buildings and design give off a different feeling. There are ways to do something differently and can be considered the American Way by Frank Lloyd Wright. Throughout time, designers move around the world and carry their design and ideas and the modern from where they came from. Their ideas are taken to another area or country and adopted there and the same design is done in one place as it was done in another place. In the time period now, it is hard to recognize if it is a modern piece and design or if it is an international idea and design. Some times, they are international from another place because of the designer’s move and sometimes that is taken and made modern. Because of this transfer and change o design, America becomes a big variety of styles and ideas and still to this day we must work to look into what is international or not. For example, there is a Scandinavian design here in the US such as the Dulles Terminal that is shown below made by Saarinen.  

The rise of the interior theme continues and is important to speak about in the online lecture and this post. The first reference is back to the women called the First Ladies of Decorating who helped make homes more modern and designed furniture. The furniture that they made help people see modernism in their homes and interior spaces. This is the beginning of when interior design became a professions and one where the designers work for the people. Designers began to look at what the people wanted and the perspectives of what they wanted to be modern and wanted in a home. Designers and their design choices became interested in what the customers want and envision in their home. Design comes from different people and different views (like well known designers or like the HGTV show Design Star). Some designers live their life through and through and pick design schemes throughout their life. Where a Design Star contestant becomes a designer in one episode and that is all. The picture below shows a well known designer compared to those who were once contestants on Design Star. Which do you recognize as a designer?

The theme of reactions to modernism is a time where people and designers can react to what they feel is modern and what looks like modern to them. These reactions can be considered “post modern” buildings and design. There are buildings that are representative of other cultures or simple international designs. People react to the older and more historical buildings and find how they would react to what was considered the modern look of the time period. An example of these historical reactions of modernism could be looking at the older president’s house and those of older, well-known white men’s homes. Some reactions of modernism are represented through the motifs of a previous building. This could include a Chippendale look, a simple and easily drawn house and any other motifs used previously as the modern look. Technology allowed us to find different ways to build the modern look and have different finishes within the interior design of the modern look and make the reactions to modernism come alive. The way people react to the modern look of the past becomes how people design in the world today. The Salk Institute, my case study, was a result of the theme through the idea of brutalism.

The other theme goes straight after the reactions of modernism and goes into what goes on beyond the modernism ideas. They use new ways to build buildings, new textures, new materials, and new complete modes of modernism. It important to consider the sustainability in the buildings and the way the used are for the environment. Expanded modes and materials are made possible with computers and technology to find ways that the building can be made and be sustainable and safe. Modernism is carried throughout the beginning until the end. Like the shell shown below. The chambered shell is called the and represents that we are carrying a legacy and the beginings of design and where it had begun. Modernisms changes throughout tie and throughout the different cultures but it is carried throughout time and a melting pot of all previous design schemes and designers. We, as designers and those looking at the design, is like the chambered shell and we carry the beginnings with us to the end.