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The idea of individual authorship plays an important role in design, both past and present. The history of design is written along the names of distinguished personalities who are presented as ingenious masterminds, among them Peter Behrens, Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Buckminster Fuller and Dieter Rams. The creation of and focus on heroic personalitiesmostly male and whitecontinues today. More recent exhibitions, publications, and media coverage are still dominated by star designers such as Philippe Starck and Konstantin Gricic. Accordingly, most design objects are stylized to be "iconic works" originating from the genius mind of a single designer: the Barcelona Chair is the result of Mies van der Rohe's courage to think laterally, the LC3 sofa only exists because of Le Corbusier's clairvoyance and the Braun SK4 radio owes its creation to Dieter Rams' intransigency. But are these really the men who single-handedly made these objects what they constitute and what they are today? Is there indeed a single author to whom we can pay our respects? This chapter shall examine the role of authorship in design by first describing an exemplary design process in order to question the c

Author

Julia Meer

Publisher

de Gruyter GmbH, Walter

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110655070