Tomás Maldonado

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Tomás Maldonado in Milan , 2014

Tomás Maldonado (born April 25, 1922 in Buenos Aires ; † November 26, 2018 in Italy ) was an Argentine painter, designer, design theorist, philosopher and university professor.

Life

Maldonado was from 1955 to 1967 lecturer at the Ulm School of Design and from 1964 to 1966 rector of the university. In 1966 he was appointed a member of the Council of Humanities at Princeton University , where he held the chair of the "Class of 1913" at the School of Architecture from 1967 to 1970. From 1976 to 1984 he was professor of environmental design at the University of Bologna . From 1967 to 1969 Maldonado was president of the international umbrella association of industrial designers ICSID ( International Council of Societies of Industrial Design ). He also headed Casabella magazine from 1977 to 1981 . From 1994, as a professor, he promoted the creation of the Industrial Design department at the Milan Polytechnic .

meaning

With his conscious departure from the Bauhaus and the establishment of a modern basic apprenticeship for the HfG Ulm, Maldonado came up with a concept that is still valid today as the "ulmer model" and is used in the main at numerous universities around the world for the training of industrial designers. Maldonado stands for the scientification of education, especially at the HfG, with teaching in subjects such as semiotics and philosophy of science .

Awards

  • 1995: Compasso d'Oro Award from the Italian Industrial Designer Association
  • 1998: Italian State Prize for Services in Science and Culture
  • 2001: Honorary Doctorate from the Milan Polytechnic
  • 2012: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

Works

  • Max Bill. Editorial nueva visión, Buenos Aires 1955.
  • Contributions to the terminology of semiotics. Ebner, Ulm 1961.
  • La speranza progettuale. Einaudi, Turin 1970 (German environment and revolt: on the dialectic of design in late capitalism. Translated by Gui Bonsiepe, Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1972, ISBN 978-3-4991-1534-9 )
  • Avanguardia e razionalità: articoli, saggi, pamphlets 1946-1974. Einaudi, Turin 1974.
  • Disegno industriale: un gigantic. Feltrinelli, Milan 1976.
  • Tecnica e cultura: il dibattito inglese fra Bismarck e Weimar. Ed., Feltrinelli, Milan 1979.
  • Il futuro della modernità. Feltrinelli, Milan 1987.
  • Cultura, democrazia, ambience: saggi sul mutamento. Feltrinelli, Milan 1990.
  • Real e virtuale. Feltrinelli, Milan 1992.
  • Tre lezioni americane / Three American lectures. Translated by Kate Singleton and William S. Huff, Feltrinelli, Milan 1992.
  • Che cos'è un intellettuale? Avventure e disavventure di un ruolo. Feltrinelli, Milan 1995.
  • Critica della ragione informatica. Feltrinelli, Milan 1997.
  • Escritos Preulmianos. Carlos A. Méndez Mosquera and Nelly Perazzo (eds.), Infinito, Buenos Aires 1997, ISBN 978-9-8796-3700-5 .
  • Memoria e conoscenza. Sulle sorti del sapere nella prospettiva digital. Feltrinelli, Milan 2005.
  • Digital world and design. Translated and edited by Gui Bonsiepe , Birkhäuser, Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-7643-7822-6 .

Web links

Commons : Tomás Maldonado  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tomás Maldonado y su Arte Concreto: "Éramos jóvenes insoportables" ( Memento of November 26, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 26, 2018
  2. ↑ On the death of Tomás Maldonado: Design as Science . Der Tagesspiegel, November 27, 2018.
  3. ↑ Great designer: Tomás Maldonado is dead . Südwestpresse, November 26, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Maldonado, Tomás
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maldonado, Thomás
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine painter, designer and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 2018
Place of death Italy