GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Mass Production
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A more intellectual attempt to create a global culture around the enlightenment ideals of rationality, science and democracy. The modern movement in architecture and planning, around 1880-1930, as an attempt to create a global culture through the landscape of the city. Creative years, 1880-1930: progressive belief in reason, science, technology for improving the human condition, le corbusier"s 1933 sketch of a city of the future, like metropolis, pure imagination. City for the masses: packing cases and assembly line, machine-age aesthetic. Design should be function based, no extra decorations. Moral and political conviction of the modern movement: The machine as liberator: mass production and economic benefits of housing units and motor cars, the machine and democracy: Standardization in building from a universal style removes elitism and the alienation of workers. Universal forms remove parochialism and lead to a rational universalism, the global citizen. The message goes global: the international style, ciam congress.
