Public the article I wrote for my friend John Saoner, one of those people that do justice to that "who finds a friend finds a treasure." Yes, because John knew I finally found who can guide me in one of the ways previously unknown. I've always been a fan of sound reproduction, from the standpoint of "historical" as the development of human communication, and as a vehicle, then, of propaganda messages (see the use of radio in Hitler's Germany, or our "miniculpop. John helps me in understanding the technical side. Moreover, from the pages of your site www.tubesound.it , we understand how technique and passion are toghether. With good Saoner perhaps put in to design a site (which is close to my heart a long,) namely the publication of a historical survey of radio - and the development of sound reproduction (up to today's hi-fi) - enriched with technical explanations on the various models of players and their evolution in terms of technical and scientific.
And now the article, which is on the sidelines of his work
http://www.tubesound.it/braun_rcs9.htm
Bauhaus and sixties
Bauhaus and SessantaIl year 1961 was a year of "crossroads" of the history of the twentieth century. In that year we witness events that will mark deeply, for better or for worse, Europe. In Germany, especially, the 1961 sees the construction of the Berlin Wall, a symbol of division running from Berlin and involves the entire world. The logic of blocs will know hardships which could lead to the brink of nuclear catastrophe, during the Cuban crisis, only two years dopo.Ma the year 1961 is the year that opens the conquest of space and the exponential growth of scientific research. Yuri Gagarin, April 12, 1961, with the Vostok 1, the first man in space, orbiting the terra.E 'an extraordinary year for the culture. Ivo Andric won the Nobel Prize for literature, Karl Popper and the Frankfurt School Theodorn Adorno collide on the method of scientific research in the famous "Positivismusstreit", namely the clash between positivism and dialectical materialism, epistemological debate that will condition the future. Hemingway committed suicide, and Primo Levi writes, "The Truce", a chronicle of a return to the world of the living after the hell of lager.E 'the year of economic boom, and the reconstruction of destroyed by World War II, continued throughout the fifties, is the basis for a period of unprecedented economic expansion. Birth of the affluent society, and Germany is in first fila.La discovers German culture Weimar, and representatives of the artistic and theatrical, as Brecht. In 1961, Walter Gropius, founder in 1919 of the revolutionary tendency of architecture Bauhaus, founded the Bauhaus Archive in Darmstadt. The Bauhaus, founded in 1919, and finally cut short by the advent of Hitler, was rediscovered in the early sixties by the new generation raised in the tough post-war period. And 'the beginning of a revelation for the architects of the sixties, who rediscover the essentials of the conception of the great German architect. The house as the object of furnishing become the final realization of a process of mental construction, creative and practical Finally, combining with technology, ergonomics and simplicity in a very innovative designer fusion . The new concepts are put into construction of large firms through the recruitment of designers, a new professional figure who comes to affect the production lines. Here are the objects produced and offered for sale are seen in a vision of "total" of the product, or as a synthesis of technique and immagine.Nasce modern design, as we understand it now. Braun is one of the first to invest in design. The best designer Dieter Rams was that he was a pupil of Otto Apel (Apel was for ten long years the assistant principal of Albert Speer, Hitler's architect, who later became minister of armaments of the Reich. After the war he was employed by the Americans for modernize the building techniques in USA). Rams began a research style that led him to develop the concept of essentiality ergonomic, condensed in his aphorism "Weniger, aber besser" or "less but better" or, loosely, "Less, provided better ". Influences evident in his work of the Bauhaus, and in particular Peter Keler, which has translated into lists by simple lines of his creations and the concepts of space and linearity of works such as "Cradle" in 1922.
Carlo Giacchino
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Magdalena Droste; Angelika Taschen, Bauhaus 1919 – 1933 , Köln Taschen 2002,
Reissinger; Robinson; Siebenbrodt, Bauhaus Weimar - designs for the future , Ostfildern-Ruit : Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000.
Jaeggi-Schwaiger, Fagus: industrial culture from Werkbund to Bauhaus , New York , Princeton Architectural Press, 2000.
Hans-Joachim Braun, The German economy in the twentieth century (The German Reich and the Federal Republic) , Routledge, New York 1990.
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Nigel Whiteley, Design for Society, London, Reaktion Books, 1998. References essential
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http://www.formguide.de/en/designers/overview/peter-keler/
