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Department of the History of Science<br>
LIFE SCIENCES/ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES WORKING GROUP <br><br>
</font><font size=4><i>Peder Anker, University of Oslo<br>
</i>Graphic Language: Herbert Bayer Environmental Design<br><br>
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The designer agency possesses great force in terms of how people see and
interact with the environment, yet their moods of communication is rarely
a topic for historians of science or the environment. This paper will
serve as a remedy by discussing the work of Herbert Bayer. As a former
faculty member of the Bauhaus school, he introduced modernist imagery in
relation to globalization, conservation values, and maps dealing with
environmental concerns in the United States. His graphic work represented
a neo-Romantic attempt to reconcile managerial capitalism with humanistic
values and protection of the environment as a whole. The three dominating
themes in Bayer environmental design were images of globalization,
designs with nature, and cartography. This paper will proceed in the same
sequence, arguing that Bayer visual representation of the global
environment rested on a Bauhaus vision of a new kind of industrial
humanism, that his designs with nature came to inspire a whole generation
of earthworks artists, architects, and landscape designers, and finally
that his World Geo-Graphic Atlas of 1953 established a Bauhaus
iconography in atlases addressing environmental issues.<br><br>
<div align="center"><font color="#800000"><b>Wednesday May 3, 2006,
12:30-2:00, Science Center 469<br>
Sandwich Lunch Provided<br><br>
Please RSVP to Jane Zhu:
<a href="mailto:jzhu@fas.harvard.edu">jzhu@fas.harvard.edu<br><br>
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Thank you<br>
Jane Zhu<br>
Faculty Assistant <br>
History of Science Department <br>
Science Center 371 <br>
1 Oxford St. <br>
Cambridge, MA 02138 <br><br>
Phone: (617) 384-5800<br>
Fax: (617) 495-3344<br>
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