Peter Gössel

A history of twentieth-century design will repeatedly find itself recognising traditions and identifying revivals, rééditions, and new discoveries, which are based on models dating far back into the nineteenth century. One cannot avoid realising that many designs which we are tempted to regard...

Prologue New aesthetic potentiel was releosed at the end of the eighteenth century in the wake of the Enlightenment. The natural sciences were declared a recognized means of explaining the world, and geometric axioms competed with anatomic rules of proportion. The definition of units of...