Historia del Diseño Industrial I Clase teorica 12

Good afternoon, we're going to open the answer section. I'm going to start with the supplementary class on the Russian school of contemporary design, the Bauhaus. The image you see on the cover of the graphic motif is related to a photograph by Alexander Rodchenko of a building near the Russian school and a quote from a text by Arbatov

originally published in the magazine Left, a design magazine, in 1924. It was cited by Arbatov in his classic book, Russian Constructivism. Everything was based on the profile sought for this new professional of design, or construction, to be more specific. In terms of terminology, it stated that this new mission could not be carried out

by the old type of applied artist, nor by the old type of engineer. It could only be fulfilled by a new social type: the artist-builder. However, this new type of worker could not emerge without the reconstruction of the entire system of art education. As we saw in the previous class, this reconversion, this reconstruction of

the entire system of art education, was carried out starting with Olga Rosa Luca's leadership at the head of Liso. This reconstruction, as it says... Arbatov, who transformed art schools into polytechnics, produced this new social profile of engineer-builders with scientific knowledge, with knowledge of the scientific method, to orient themselves towards a much more

productivist attitude in the handling of form. This is how this new artist, as we already discussed in the previous class, sees this cyclical way of writing about themes, as in most Eastern languages. In Russia, in part and to a large extent, it is an Eastern country. It has to do with Russian, with a