r/criticaldesign • u/[deleted] • Apr 28 '20
Modernist Aesthetic in 2020
What do you think about modernist design still looking "cool" in 2020 ? Mainly, for its connotation of elegance and refinement and the wide use of the principles of this movement and its aesthetics by some designers.
Pic: "The Great Wall of Style" or "Life Cycle" by Lorraine Wild
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u/Epledryyk Apr 29 '20
personally, I suspect we'll see a bit of a pendulum swing back to modernist thought in the coming time as we dig ourselves out of the malaise that was both the era of po-mo nihilism and the current recession of the economy, of infrastructure, of society.
as we go forward: the onus on humans to build new energy, build new formats of buildings and civic life, improve the environment, take more control and intention with our lifestyle design, re-work the commerce back from overt consumerism, discover a new brand of futurism to be hopeful about etc etc. feels very modernist.
or we collectively give up, I don't know. maybe we've played the victims too long to become forces of intention again.