Structure — OUGD601

Structure

Intro

• Why am I writing about modernism?
• Investigating the links between modernist architecture and graphic design

Chapter 1 — What is Modernism?

• The birth of Modernism in design
• Bauhaus (Multidisciplinary practitioners)
• Modernist graphic design/designers

Chapter 2 — Modernist Architecture & Utopia Case Study

• Form over function — Louis Sullivan
• Utopian values — Le Corbusier
• Utopian Alphabet — Thomas More
• Modernist architecture
• Brutalism
• "Love it or hate it" (Modernism vs. Postmodernism)
• How the above applies to all areas of design

Chapter 3 — Modernism today

• Zombie Modernism
• Modernism moving forward
• Brutalist buildings gaining listed status
• Was the vision of the Modernist movement misdirected?
• New logo’s mimicking those of modernist past, coincidental?

Conclusion…