Entrée principale:

Bill, Max, 1908-1994.

Titre et auteur:

Form, function, beauty = gestalt / Max Bill ; [translated by Pamela Johnston ; an introduction by Karin Gimmi].

Publication:

London : Architectural Association, 2010, ©2011.

Description:

168 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, plans ; 18 cm

Série(s):

Architecture words ; v. 5

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: On Bill -- Why I make jewellry from time to time -- My experience of product design -- The good form -- Beauty from function and as function -- A, B, C, D ... -- The basis and aim of aesthetics in the machine age -- Continuity and change -- Good formal design -- What is industrial design -- Definition of the term 'product form' -- Function and gestalt -- Managing our environment -- What is good about the good form -- May a heater be ... a heater? -- On expensive junk -- What I know about clocks -- Are European methods of environmental design universally applicable (in art, architecture, urban planning, product design)? -- Responsibility in design and information -- Sense without sense? -- Dreams of life on the dentist's chair -- Response to the International Design Centre in Berlin -- From functionalism to function -- The function of designed objects.
Translated from German.

Résumé:

This is a collection of Max Bill's key texts, on industrial and product design, aesthetics, form and function, environmental design, function of designed objects. Bill was a student at Bauhaus, and became a virtuoso designer whose work overlapped disciplinary boundaries: architecture, painting, sculpture, industrial and graphic design.

ISBN:

1902902858 (paperback)
9781902902852 (paperback)

Sujet:

Bill, Max, 1908-1994 Criticism and interpretation.
Bill, Max, 1908-1994
Artists Switzerland.
Artistes Suisse.
Artists
Switzerland

Classification/genre:

Writings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Vedettes secondaires:

Johnston, Pamela.
Gimmi, Karin, 1959-
Architectural Association (Great Britain)
Architecture words ; 5.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main y 268431
Cote: NA44.B596.A35 2010
Statut: Disponible