Émigré Cultures In Design And Architecture

This new volume addresses the lasting contribution made by Central European émigré designers to twentieth-century American design and architecture. The contributors examine how oppositional stances in debates concerning consumption and modernism's social agendas taken by designers such as Felix Augenfeld, Joseph Binder, Josef Frank, Paul T. Frankl, Frederick Kiesler, Richard Neutra, and R. M. Schindler in Europe prefigured their later adoption or rejection by American culture. They argue that émigrés and refugees from fascist Europe such as György Kepes, Paul László, Victor Papanek, Bernard Rudofsky, Xanti Schawinsky, and Eva Zeisel drew on the particular experiences of their home countries, and networks of émigré and exiled designers in the United States, to develop a humanist, progressive, and socially inclusive design culture which continues to influence design practice today.

• | Author: Alison Clarke|Elana Shapira, Alison Clarke
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Nov 02, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 264 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Design
• | ISBN-10: 1474275605
• | ISBN-13: 9781474275606