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Rethinking the modular : adaptable systems in architecture and design / edited by Burkhard Meltzer and Tido von Oppeln.
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English
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New York : Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2016.
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297 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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Architecture Library - Stacks
NA680 .R47 2016
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Summary note
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 influence of modular design over the past fifty years. In revealing the broad possibilities created by balancing structure with flexibility, the timely publication redefines the place of modularity in modern design history, and offers a rich resource for designers today.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Preface : notes on the 50th anniversary of USM Modular Furniture Haller / Alexander Schärer
Introduction : balancing the modular / Burkhard Meltzer, Tido von Oppeln
Back to the present / John Thackara
An open invitation to the grid / Thomas Lommée
There is always an alternative : systems and production / Nathalie du Pasquier, Catharine Rossi, Antonio Scarponi, Jerszy Seymour
The prospects and limits of connection / Rick Poynor
We don't live for a system : new perspectives for modular architecture / Wolf Magelsdorf
How, then, does one organize a city? : Fritz Haller's city system / Georg Vrachliotis
Working irrationally with a rational system / Allan Wexler
Squaring up to superstudio : grids, modularity and utopianism in Italian radical design / Catharine Rossi
It's more like a service / Bless
From functional object to icon : the changing face of the USM Haller system in advertising / Marino Stierli
Dynamic labyrinth (Seoul) / Rem Koolhaus, Hans Ulrich Obrist
I try to be architecture / Go Hasegawa
Wide minds / Alva Noë
Calling someone in China / Dimitri Bähler
Modularity and adaptation / Thomas Dienes, Jürgen Mayer H.
For a tree, modularity is not an issue / Lorenzo Bini
Appendix : a retrospective of USM Haller.
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ISBN
9780500292358 ((paperback))
0500292353 ((paperback))
LCCN
2015953651
OCLC
940691546
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