I agree that the position that design is result of “function x economy”.

Because our current civilization is based on capitalism most design would have been equated

to have margins of profit for capital gain. The Bauhaus is not an exception, the Sommerfeld house is a great example because the house was amazing yet the public response thought it was inappropriate. This was because the demand for those house were not there.

In responds the Bauhaus redesigned their methodology which turn created the Haus-am-Horn which was correct for the market for the time.

Design is the ability to create a pice of work that balances both the art and the science. Good or bad design is dependent on the balance of those two aspects. It's an art within its self to balance them. I believe that design both art and science. Like in the photo, of the cigarette boxes the create way of making ascetic contemporary and also the understanding of the future and time.


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 http://designyoutrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/pd2a.jpg