Designing Modern Life
Editors: Ana Tostões, Ivan Blasi
Guest editors: Bárbara Coutinho
Keywords: Modern Movement,
Modern architecture,
Modern interior design,
Furniture modern design,
Modern living.
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/46.I.09N7XIUH
The aim is to contribute for the discussion that relates modern heritage and interior space, common daily life and musealization of Modern Interior Spaces, gathered underneath a global strategy, to better understand and preserve these delicate monuments. In fact, the interior space with all devices and furniture pieces is frequently not appreciated as an essential matter in safeguard interventions. Ranging from restoration process research and know-how, new modern materials and techniques are discussed facing up to new conservation process and innovative rehabilitation solutions, as well. One knows that Modern spatiality must require furniture conceived under a unitary design concept, which implies today to identify every detail with the aim of a reconstruction process, where research on documentation is one of the success keys.
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Editorial
Designing Modern Life
Ana Tostões
Essays
Why Preserve Modern Now?
Bárbara Coutinho Visions on Furniture
Jurjen Creman Modern Architecture and Modern Furniture
Otakar Mácêl Mies van der Rohe’s Tugendhat House – Weightless Living
Monika Wagner Investigation and Production of Furniture for Villa Tugendhat 2009–2012
Miroslav Ambroz Modernism in Finnish Furniture Design and Production
Pekka Korvenmaa Artek and Alvar Aalto
Mia Hipeli Metsäpaviljonski, Form Follows Wood
Cristian Suau Charles and Ray Eames: Modern Living in a Postwar Era
Kyle Normandin Clara Porset. A Modern Designer for Mexico
Louise Noelle Gaston Eysselinck and his Masterpiece. The Post Office Building in Ostend (1945-1953)
Marc Dubois Dieter Rams: Ethics and Modern Philosophy. What Legacy Today?
Klaus Klemp
Documentation Issues
ODAM and the Construction of a Modern Spirit
Edite Rosa Svetlovodsk: Realized Urban Utopia of the USSR. A Revitalization Strategy for the Small Post-Soviet Monocity
Vladislav Tyminski, Anna Kamyshan
Heritage in danger
Factory Kitchen, Samara, 1931, by Ekaterina Maksimova
Ivan Blasi, Vladimir Shukhov, Anna Bronovitskaya Sandoz Headquarters - Office Complex Novartis, Rueil-Malmaison, 1962-1968, by Martin Burckhardt and Bernard-Henri Zehrfuss
Ivan Blasi Kyoto Kaikan, Kyoto, 1960, by Kunio Mayekawa
Ivan Blasi, Hiroshi Matsukuma Dinamo Stadium, Moscow, 1927-1936, by Aleksandr Langman and Leonid Cherikover
Ivan Blasi, Anna Bronovitskaya
Tributes
Ricardo Legorreta. An Architect in Search of Modernity within Tradition
Louise Noelle
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