“Together let us create the new structure of the future that will be everything in one form – architecture and sculpture and painting – and that one day will rise towards the heavens like a crystal image of a new emerging belief.” Walter Gropius?
Bauhaus Modernist Maxim: FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION
"The good object can offer only one unambiguous solution: the type"
Anni Albers
Does identifying a physical location act as a magnet to help a creative movement develop and gather momentum?
In recent history a few that spring to mind are:
Weimar, Germany 1920's - Bauhaus
Hollywood, California 1930's - heyday of movie making
SoHo, New York for beat poets and musicians in the 1960's - The Factory, Warhol
Soho, London for writers in the 1950's
Liverpool in the 1960's - Beatles
London in the 1960's - music/ fashion - Swinging 60's Carnaby Street
London in the 1970's - punk - King's Road (Malcolm Mclaren)
Bronx, New York, 1980's - Hip Hop, wild style graffiti (Afrika Bambaataa)[*Kraftwerk]
Silicon Valley, San Francisco - 1980's ( Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs)
Factory/ Hacienda, Manchester - 1990's (Tony Wilson)
Shoreditch, London - digital music/ media in the 1990's - Last FM, Hoxton Square (Goldie)
The factory by Warhol was one of the most influential in recent popular culture being a catalyst for; Malcolm Mclaren, David Bowie, and Tony Wilson.
"Perseverance Works" in Shoreditch
Where do young designers and artists want to be now? Is web 2.0 really making a physical place irrelevant? What is the Zeitgeist today?
All those graduating or leaving school (or older) and finding it hard to get the job wanted - go to the new place where things seems to be happening and be part of the 'spirit of the time' and put it on the mainstream map.
Where is the future happening now?
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