In conjunction with the current exhibition "The Essence of Things. Design and the Art of Reduction" the Vitra Design Museum are running a series of summer workshops. "The Essence of Things. Design and the Art of Reduction" deals, as the name implies, with "reduction" in design: principally the reasons for reduction in design - be they technical, aesthetic or philosophical. Using this as the basis, the workshops encourage participants to think "reduced" and for all to create useful products
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One of the brightest stars in the glittering world of star architects celebrates today his 80th Birthday. Born in Toronto as the son of Jewish migrants, Frank Gehry moved as 17 year old to America and earned his keep working as a lorry driver and airplane washer before studying architecture in Los Angeles and urban planning at Harvard. He first attracted a wider public as he “renovated” his house in Santa Monica. His neighbors “went bananas” after Gehry transformed an old, conservative
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