Modern Design: Industrial Technology, Engineering and Culture

Abstract:

The industrialisation and modern civilisation were ever being the landmark signs for European social modernisation. Its birth strongly suggested a series cause of remarkable social and historical change, and the reasons of modern design arise as well. Under such a view, it was revealed that the industrial manufacturing and technology became the first reason of modern design and presented a basic support for design’s modernisation. Meanwhile, the progress of industrial engineering gave a further effect on the development of modern design, where the progress in public architecture and civil engineering created new standards of structure, materials as well as of new aesthetic styles for design. Moreover, modern design also showed the relationship with European social systems and culture, for the latter, as the institutional or cultural factors, dominated the functions of technology and engineering practice to modern design movements.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 655-657)
• Pages: 2065-2068
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.655-657.2065
• Online since: January 2013
• Authors: Zhi Yong Wang
• Keywords: Culture, Engineering, Industrial Technology, Modern Design, Social System

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