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Teaching Form Through Practice (Werklicher formunterricht)
The rigorous monitoring of one's own work I have described carries a justifiably high price: discipline as both precept and outcome.
from Teaching Form Through Practice (Werklicher formunterricht) by Joseph Albers
Vance Dekker added 2y ago
Ours is an economically oriented age. In earlier times, world-view was more important. Today, nobody can exist without considering economics: we are concerned with economic form. Also because the need for rational design necessarily follows the previous overemphasis on emotion or historical forms. (Because, like clothes, forms also wear out.)
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Vance Dekker added 2y ago
The activation of negativa (of remainders, intermediate, and negative values) is perhaps the only entirely new, perhaps the most important aspect of contemporary interest in forms.
from Teaching Form Through Practice (Werklicher formunterricht) by Joseph Albers
Vance Dekker added 2y ago