西方现代设计运动中的民主悖论——关于巨型结构的思考

The Paradox of Democracy in the Western Modern Design Movement——Thinking About the Mega-Structure

现代主义运动作为与传统文化决裂,塑造新型文化的开端,曾经以革新者的姿态,重塑了人们生活的方方面面。在这一过程中,现代设计大师们如虔诚的传教者一般,积极建立自己的价值与理念体系,并以体量庞大的设计实践方案在大地之上下定注脚。为了赋予当时的新材料与新技术以适宜的美学形式,他们抛弃个人渴望,投身于技术与功能的逻辑关系中。然而就本质层面而言,这种以物质性为统领的设计体系,显然忽略了社会的复杂性与资本的力量,从而使其民主主义的出发点日益站不住脚。尤其在后期的巨型结构景观中,设计者逐渐演变成一个专断的造物主形象,在资本的主导下走向了民主的反面。

As the beginning of a new type of culture, the movement of modernism, which signifies breaking with traditional culture, reshaped the aspects of people ＂s lives with innovators attitude. In this process, the modern design masters as preachers with the pious attitude actively established their value system, and set a footnote in the earth with the huge amount of design practice. In order to find suitable aesthetic form for new materials and new technology, they threw themselves into the logical relation between technology and function without any personal desire. However, for the nature level, such design system under the guidance of matefiality apparently ignored the complexity of society and the power of capital, thus shaking its starting point of democracy. Especially in the later mega-strncture landscape, the designer has evolved into an arbitrary creator, and moved towards the opposite of democracy under the guidance of capital.