Architect Norma Merrick Sklarek was born in Harlem, New York 1926. Sklarek’s life has been filled with many firsts. She was the first Black woman to be licensed as an architect in New York (1954) and in California (1962). In 1959, Sklarek became the first Black woman to become a member of the American architects’…
Reflection on Bauhuas Philosophy
It is unprecedented that Bauhaus philosophy tends to combine the aesthetics and everyday function. One of the principles Bauhaus strives for is that function before form. It underlies the importance of functionality and can be related to the principles of interaction designs. For modern interaction designers, we mean to create products that help the users…
Thoughts on Bauhaus House
To me, Bauhaus was an avant-garde movement. It was influenced by modernism and constructivism, a style or a moment that meant to break the forms and ideas of traditional and classical values. Not only Bauhaus was one of the first institute that accepted black students, the Bauhaus represented the concept of minimalism, theorized on primary…
Patricia Moore
Patricia Moore, also as known as the Mother of Universal Design, is a female industrial designer in the US. Graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology, Moore chose to complete advanced studies in biomechanics at the New York University School of Medicine and the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine. Realized how important of taking empathic research to the extreme to design…
