Danger in the Smallest Dose”
Richard Neutra's Design Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12922202 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Todd Cronan (Museum of Modern Art, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 165-191 |
| Publication date | 2011-05-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Design and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-7075 • E-ISSN: 1754-7083 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2752/175470811x13002771867806 |
| OpenAlex | W2037274552 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Over forty years Richard Neutra elaborated a complex design theory to support his architectural practice. At the root of his concerns was the capacity of design elements to both advance and destroy human sensory life. This essay explores the shift that occurs from Neutra's early ideals—centered on notions of open planning, user interactivity and design plasticity—to his later commitment to a psychoanalytically informed architecture. Neutra's postwar structures aimed to recreate the protective sensation of the womb as well as the traumatic experience of birth. Despite a clear shift in aesthetic and rhetoric from interaction to therapy, his basic intentions never changed. Underlying both phases was an emphatic interest in shaping the life of those who inhabited his structures through the use of materials that produced effects independent of artistic agency.KEYWORDS: Neutraaffecttraumaopen planFerenczipsychoanalysisplasticity
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Interactivity · Multimedia · Rhetoric · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Architecture, Modernity, and Design · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Architecture
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |