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“Danger in the Smallest Dose”: Richard Neutra's Design Theory
Over forty years Richard Neutra elaborated a complex design theory to support his architectural practice. At the root of his concerns was the capacity of design elements to both advance and destroy human sensory life. This essay explores the shift that occurs from Neutra's early ideals—centered on notions of open planning, user interactivity and design plasticity—to his later commitment to a psychoanalytically informed architecture. Neutra's postwar structures aimed to recreate the protective sensation of the womb as well as the traumatic experience of birth. Despite a clear shift in aesthetic and rhetoric from interaction to therapy, his basic intentions never changed. Underlying both phases was an emphatic interest in shaping the life of those who inhabited his structures through the use of materials that produced effects independent of artistic agency.
“Danger in the Smallest Dose”: Richard Neutra's Design Theory
Over forty years Richard Neutra elaborated a complex design theory to support his architectural practice. At the root of his concerns was the capacity of design elements to both advance and destroy human sensory life. This essay explores the shift that occurs from Neutra's early ideals—centered on notions of open planning, user interactivity and design plasticity—to his later commitment to a psychoanalytically informed architecture. Neutra's postwar structures aimed to recreate the protective sensation of the womb as well as the traumatic experience of birth. Despite a clear shift in aesthetic and rhetoric from interaction to therapy, his basic intentions never changed. Underlying both phases was an emphatic interest in shaping the life of those who inhabited his structures through the use of materials that produced effects independent of artistic agency.
“Danger in the Smallest Dose”: Richard Neutra's Design Theory
Cronan, Todd (Autor:in)
Design and Culture ; 3 ; 165-191
01.07.2011
27 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Neutra , affect , trauma , open plan , Ferenczi , psychoanalysis , plasticity
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