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Otl Aicher’s writings are explorations of that world. They are a substantive part of his work. In moving through the history of thought and design, building and construction he assures the possibilities of arranging existence in a humane fashion. As ever he is concerned with the question of the conditions needed to produce a civilization culture. These conditions have to be fought for against apparent factual or material constraints and spiritual and intellectual substitute offers. Otl Aicher has a taste for dispute. For this reason this volume contains polemical statements on cultural and political subjects as well as practical reports and historical exposition. Aicher fights with productive obstinacy above all for the renewal of Modernism, which he says has largely exhausted itself in aesthetic visions. He insists that the ordinary working day is still more important than "cultural sunday". Wolfgang Jean Stock
Crisis of Modernism.
Doing Without Symbols.
Aesthetic Existence.
The Third Modernism.
Charles Eames.
Hans Gugelot.
Flying Machines by Paul Mc Cready.
Bauhaus and Ulm.
Architecture as a Reflection of the State.
The Non-Usable Useful Item.
The Signature.
Intelligent Building.
My Workspace Does not Yet Exist.
Difficulties for Architects and Designers.
Appearance.
Graphic Designers' Space to be Themselves.
A New Typeface.
The World as Design.
Afterword.
Sources.
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Otl Aicher’s writings are explorations of that world. They are a substantive part of his work. In moving through the history of thought and design, building and construction he assures the possibilities of arranging existence in a humane fashion. As ever he is concerned with the question of the conditions needed to produce a civilization culture. These conditions have to be fought for against apparent factual or material constraints and spiritual and intellectual substitute offers. Otl Aicher has a taste for ...