Plischke, Ernst A., 1903-1992.

Design and living / E.A. Plishke.

Wellington, N.Z., Dept. of Internal Affairs, 1947.

92 p. illus., plans. 28 cm.

New Zealand and the future

"This booklet is an attempt ot show that we of the twentieth century can live our ordinary everyday lives in an environment properly designed for the purpose -- if only we wish to do so. Design is important: we can live better with design than without it. Design is not something fancy. In writing I have tried to make it plain that the design of a good chair, a good house or a good town must work well, and must us eht most suitable materials and construction, but that both of thee qualiites must be a real, "organic" part of some creative conception ... The utilitarian and aesthetic approaches to planning are not fundamentally opposed. The difference is one of emphasis only ... A well designed chair of today and a fine town of five hundred years ago have in common this fundamental characteristic of creative quality. So, in the early remarks of this booklet, about the design of a chair, can equally well be applied to when, at the end, we come to plan a town ..." -- Note p. [1].
Explores the relationship between lifestyle and design, in terms of furniture, architecture and town planning. Published at a time of post war urban growth in Wellington and Auckland. Includes examples of proposals for suburbs in these areas and the modern design considerations underpinning these plans eg. proposed civic centre for Naenae, State housing developments at Trentham, community centre for Mount Roskill.

Architectural design.
Design.
City planning.
Industrial design.
Design architectural.
design (discipline)
industrial design.

Books.

New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs.
New Zealand and the future.

Location: Library main 38814
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