PART I- UNDERSTANDING UTOPIA
2. Modernism- Building Utopia through visualization.
Figure 2. Utopia Documents of Reality by Johannes Itten
Figure 1. The fourth issue of zoom-Archigram edition that discussed science fiction, science fact, and space comics.
Visual arts have always been a good medium for designers to express their interpretation of the imagery of the future society that we are moving towards. With modernism came the trend of using new styles, new fonts and incorporating a statement of the new style, which was highly influenced by the technological advancement. Futuristic architecture was influenced by automobiles and space age, so the curiosity and fascination about the same were depicted in the new style. At the peak of modernism there were new ideas about functionality, programme and flexibility. Hand renders and perspectives weren’t enough for architects to communicate these dynamic ideas. We needed something more abstract that conveys greater information about relationships, assemblies and habitation, this led to the propagation of diagrams and axonometries, they were more abstract than perspective
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