Readings: Technology and Progress

We will be discussing the notions of technology and progress and how these concepts have informed the development of modern design when we return from the break. Please read the excerpted text from David Raizman's chapter on the Bauhaus from "History of Design" and the position statements from Muthesius and Van de velde given during the 1914 Werkbund debates [pages 1-3 only].

Herbert Bayer's "Universal typface" 1925