The New York Subway Map Debate At Cooper Union April 20, 730 pm /anglais Fremdsprachige Bücher Guillermo Kuitca

Guillermo Kuitca

architektonische Details

Throughout the modern age

inspiriert von Motiven aus den alten Kulturen der Maya

Topics include: communication models

The New York Subway Map Debate At Cooper Union April 20, 730 pm /anglais Fremdsprachige Bücher Guillermo KuitcaThe discovery of a lost audio recording sheds new light on a pivotal event in design history: the 1978 debate at Cooper Union between designer Massimo Vignelli and cartographer John Tauranac over the future of the NYC Subway Map. To the cheers and boos of a raucous audience of designers, transit officials and disgruntled subway riders, Vignelli, Tauranac and a panel of eight other experts argued. It was a battle of abstraction versus realism,