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Germany’s design and architecture reflects its rich, fraught political history in its structure and aesthetic ideology. Professor of history of design, Jeremy Aynsley, offers an in-depth study of the relationship between German history and design since the late-nineteenth century and its complex underlying principles. Designing Modern Germany reveals how German attitudes toward national identity, modernity, and [...]

First published in 1928 in Germany and out of print for many years until this English publication, this text has been recognized as one of the most important statements of modern, twentieth-century typographical design. This curious and fascinating work ranges through theories of social criticism, art history, architecture, and the emerging importance of photography as [...]