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A five page paper which looks at modernism and post-modernism as they relate to urban planning and design, and to the integration of form and function in interior design.
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is, they believed that social problems could be solved and a new and better society created. In terms of design, this meant trying to create order out of chaos in
terms of working towards clean, functional and utilitarian lines. Perhaps the closest current equivalent in design with which the student might be familiar is the minimalist style of interiors, in
which there is no clutter, clean spaces and loose items hidden away in storage units. Modernist designers were attempting to deal with
old, over-crowded slum housing and elderly factories; their aim was to create a clean and functional industrial environment, with housing units that were plentiful, adequate and with aesthetically pleasing structures.
It was a rejection of history and tradition, in many ways, since the cities of the nineteenth century were crumbling, did not function well and were an unpleasant and unhealthy
living environment. Perhaps the student could consider an old, gloomy Victorian building, with crumbling brickwork and inadequate plumbing, and see that as
representing the kind of urban design which the modernists wished to do away with. Most nineteenth-century towns had not been planned, but had grown up as a kind of urban
sprawl around factories and some sort of civic center usually comprising a town hall, church, municipal buildings; small terraced houses, crammed into as small a space as possible, housed the
factory workers whilst slightly further out of town were the larger villas in which the middle-class trades-people lived. Further out still were much larger properties, in their own grounds, which
were the dwellings of the factory owners. The remaining space was gradually filled with a conglomeration of other types of housing and residential amenities.
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