Audio
studio 2
Dieter Rams
- Year
- 1959
- Dimensions
- CS 11 - 400 x 165 x 320 mm | CV 11 - 200 x 110 x 320 mm | CE 11 - 200 x 110 x 320 mm see also: Rams' PC 5 / CSV 60 / CE 16 of '62 and '64
- Timeline scale
- 600 mm front width used for timeline scale
- Archive ID
- dasprogramm-87
Das Programm Photos
Source
With elements arranged in a gridded block, the system expresses its modularity with singular force. By comparison, the SK 4 's organic forms and natural materials of just two years earlier seem positively romantic. Rams' shift towards a more technical aesthetic was influenced, in part, by HfG student Herbert Lindinger's thesis, a study on a modular audio system, submitted to the Braun Company through Hans Gugelot's development group in '58. Lindinger's study and Rams' studio 2 together established the formal principle of Braun audio's heroic '60s phase.