A Brief Architectural History of Nightclubs
This article was originally published by Metropolis Magazine as "The Designers Who Made Disco."
The environments of nightclubs shifted along with trends in architecture and design. Pomo theatrics formed the interiors of the Flash Back Discotheque in Borgo San Dalmazzo. Image Courtesy of Paolo Mussat Sartor
This article was originally published by Metropolis Magazine as "The Designers Who Made Disco."What can?t be done on the dance floor" Not much, said the 1960s Radical Design collective Gruppo 9999, which argued that discos should be ?a home for everything, from rock music, to theater, to visual arts.? Other artists and designers?including New York bad-boy painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, architect Peter Cook of Archigram, and Manchester?s ?cathedral of rave? creator Ben Kelly?saw the dance floor as a more subversive setting: one where boundaries could be blurred and thresholds crossed, where partying and politics could be woven together in the dark to channel a cultural revolution. Night Fever at the Vitra Design Museum stitches together this conception of the nightclub as a social Gesamtkunstwerk.
In general, nightclub designers excel at playing with issues of scale, as Akoaki?s 2014 Mothership mobile DJ pod attests. Image Courtesy of Akoaki
Though organized as four exhibition halls corresponding to a loose chronological narrative over five decades, Night Fever eschews strict timelines to focus on broader themat...
The environments of nightclubs shifted along with trends in architecture and design. Pomo theatrics formed the interiors of the Flash Back Discotheque in Borgo San Dalmazzo. Image Courtesy of Paolo Mussat Sartor
This article was originally published by Metropolis Magazine as "The Designers Who Made Disco."What can?t be done on the dance floor" Not much, said the 1960s Radical Design collective Gruppo 9999, which argued that discos should be ?a home for everything, from rock music, to theater, to visual arts.? Other artists and designers?including New York bad-boy painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, architect Peter Cook of Archigram, and Manchester?s ?cathedral of rave? creator Ben Kelly?saw the dance floor as a more subversive setting: one where boundaries could be blurred and thresholds crossed, where partying and politics could be woven together in the dark to channel a cultural revolution. Night Fever at the Vitra Design Museum stitches together this conception of the nightclub as a social Gesamtkunstwerk.
In general, nightclub designers excel at playing with issues of scale, as Akoaki?s 2014 Mothership mobile DJ pod attests. Image Courtesy of Akoaki
Though organized as four exhibition halls corresponding to a loose chronological narrative over five decades, Night Fever eschews strict timelines to focus on broader themat...
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