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Design is always a negotiation between the private and the public. In that space of opposition between the individual and society, creative inquiry-and design is that, too-offers an antidote to business-as-usual, to stasis. And design always moves, transforms, and remakes the world, at all scales, continuously. Until we become part of the humus under our feet there is no escape from the environmental envelope that surrounds us or even the interior space of our bodies that is increasingly transformed by designed bio-objects. The book consists of a collection of designs completed by polytekton between 1978 and 1989 in Europe and in the United States. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white images.

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polytekton is the synonym of Mikesch Muecke, a German-born designer and academic who lives and works in the United States. His work is disseminated through academic, commercial, and philanthropic venues that are part of a larger network of interdisciplinary endeavors concerned with the built/unbuilt environment in its material, historical, cultural, theoretical, and temporal representations. In other words, we (the royal we of The Big Lebowski) enjoy the following activities: imagine, draw, think, make, build, write, design, and publish. In its earlier incarnation as mikeschDesign polytekton has been web-accessible since the mid-1990s but its origins go back to the 1970s when its founder began his career as an itinerant artist, producing drawings, paintings, and murals on automobiles and buildings in Germany and Canada, then advanced this loose artistic vector many undescribed years later-following an academic career-into a full-time calling as a designer, researcher, scholar, and teacher. Since 1979 polytekton's scope has progressively broadened and deepened to include architectural design, book-publishing, graphic- and web-design, ceramics, print-making, as well as more conventional design/build projects such as condominium conversions, house renovations, and small buildings. This material work has been tempered by academic schooling with degrees from the University of Florida and Princeton University.

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