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Rethinking The Modular: Adaptable Systems in Architecture and Design
Burkhard Meltzer
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Description for Rethinking The Modular: Adaptable Systems in Architecture and Design
Paperback. A celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of USM's pioneering modular system within the greater context of architecture and design Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: AKP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
The modular did not have to be invented: it can be found everywhere. We divide surfaces into grids, spaces into parts, and time into rhythmic units. Modular structures are also increasingly being recognized as a way of communicating, where the aim is not to construct a universal principle but to facilitate interplay between different systems. Building on the visionary design system that architect Fritz Haller and engineer Paul Scharer developed in 1965 for Swiss furniture company USM, Rethinking the Modular brings together specially commissioned essays and interviews with leading designers, architects and thinkers to present the wide-ranging importance and ... Read more
The modular did not have to be invented: it can be found everywhere. We divide surfaces into grids, spaces into parts, and time into rhythmic units. Modular structures are also increasingly being recognized as a way of communicating, where the aim is not to construct a universal principle but to facilitate interplay between different systems. Building on the visionary design system that architect Fritz Haller and engineer Paul Scharer developed in 1965 for Swiss furniture company USM, Rethinking the Modular brings together specially commissioned essays and interviews with leading designers, architects and thinkers to present the wide-ranging importance and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
298
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500292358
SKU
V9780500292358
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About Burkhard Meltzer
Burkhard Meltzer is a freelance curator who writes about future art for magazines such as Kunstbulletin, frieze and Spike. He is the author of Ana and, with Tido von Oppeln, he was one of the editors of It's Not a Garden Table: Art and Design in the Expanded Field. A prolific writer for many design magazines, Tido von Oppeln also ... Read more
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