Description
Book SynopsisBuilding on the visionary design system that architect Fritz Haller and engineer aul Scharer developed in 1965 for Swiss furniture company USM, this title brings together specially commissioned essays and interviews with leading designers, architects and thinkers to present the wide-ranging importance of modular design over the years.
Table of ContentsPreface/Introduction •
I. The Systematic John Thackara: Back to the present; Rick Poynor: The Prospects and Limits of Connection; Georg Vrachliotis: Fritz Haller’s city systems • Interviews with Thomas Lommée, Wolf Mangelsdorf and Lorenzo Bini
II. The Modular Martino Stierli: The USM Haller from a modern/postmodern viewpoint Rem Koolhaas: extract from Rem Koolhaas & Hans-Ulrich Obrist: The Conversation Series; Alva Noë: extract from Out of our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness; Catharine Rossi: Squaring up to Superstudio: Grids, Modularity and Utopianism in Italian Radical Design; Interviews with Dimitri Bähler, Allan Wexler, Bless and Go Hasegawa
