Big lost, rest in peace Victor
Dr Qassim Saad
Interdsciplinary Design
School of Design and the Built Environment
Curtin University
Perth-WA
Australia
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Subject: Re: Victor Margolin, a tribute
I met Victor at a conference in Chelula, Mexico in 1999. We have been in correspondence ever since. I shall miss his thoughtful social insights into design. He leaves an extraordinary legacy for us all. A legacy to celebrate and honour.
David
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> On 3 Dec 2019, at 2:23 pm, Alejandra Poblete Perez <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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> Dear Joao and all, I have met Victor in Santiago de Chile ten years ago.
> Brilliant mind, deep thinker.
>
> here the DRS link on Victor Margolin Funeral Arrangements
> https://www.designresearchsociety.org/articles/victor-margolin-and-charles-l-owen?fbclid=IwAR2qw7G3p0jSFQINh844vAFNBBcy0avhSGEkaR8JNek7ejxBCpe2gxVz5jc <https://www.designresearchsociety.org/articles/victor-margolin-and-charles-l-owen?fbclid=IwAR2qw7G3p0jSFQINh844vAFNBBcy0avhSGEkaR8JNek7ejxBCpe2gxVz5jc>
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> best regards
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> Design School* Faculty of Humanities and Social
> Communication Technologies
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> El dom., 1 dic. 2019 a las 15:23, João DeSouzaLeite (<[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>)
> escribió:
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>> *Victor Margolin, a tribute*
>>
>>
>>
>> Yesterday, I heard from third parties about the passing of Victor. I think
>> I can say we became friends to him a long time ago—Evelyn Grumach, my wife,
>> and I.
>>
>>
>>
>> I met him a few decades ago at PUC-Rio, a Catholic University in Rio de
>> Janeiro, in one of the first design conferences in Brazil. I invited him to
>> have lunch with us at home, and then we went to visit a wonderful Brazilian
>> folk art museum, Museu do Pontal, in Recreio dos Bandeirantes, after Barra
>> da Tijuca, a far neighborhood in Rio.
>>
>> On the way, something happened that I’m never tired to retell.
>>
>> We left our house in Leblon by car towards the first tunnel, Dois Irmãos
>> tunnel. The entrance to this first neighborhood, São Conrado, was a
>> glorious one, the blue sky with flying humans on its colorful wings.
>>
>>
>>
>> How beautiful! Wonderful! he said.
>>
>>
>>
>> Towards Barra da Tijuca, where one can find a very strange and not so good,
>> even awful architecture, we passed through another tunnel, and a strange
>> silence settled in the car. And we kept passing by those buildings, always
>> in silence.
>>
>>
>>
>> Some minutes have passed, and interjections began to be heard:
>>
>> Jesus! Oh god! Jesus Christ!
>>
>> And his question finally came:
>>
>> Don't you guys have a school of architecture here?
>>
>>
>>
>> * * *
>>
>>
>>
>> This was Victor Margolin, mindful of everything around him. From the
>> activity of afro-descendants designers in Chicago about which he made a
>> fine small-print record to urban art demonstrations in the Mexican
>> community of Chicago, where he led us excited and delighted to provide us
>> with such a stroll, eating in a sensational very small place, just a
>> counter. Yet, he could turn his attention to kitsch demonstrations gathered
>> at the University of Illinois Museum of Corn-temporary Art, recorded
>> in *Culture
>> is Everywhere*. Or even from the contemporary production of posters in the
>> most hidden corners of the planet to political issues of design.
>>
>> A sensitive look, diverse in the objects of his admiration, Victor was a
>> lover of jazz and blues. To him, I owe the discovery of great musicians.
>>
>>
>>
>> A few years ago, he suffered a fall in Seoul after receiving a lifetime
>> achievement award, which caused him serious motor problems. Which made him
>> very dismayed to move from his beautiful Chicago apartment, a large loft in
>> an old building, a disused film industry warehouse, to Washington DC to
>> make life easier. Still, the last time we spoke, he said he had found
>> someone to help him finish the third volume of his quite impressive *World
>> History of Design*.
>>
>>
>>
>> Blunt when necessary, his kindness always made conversation possible, an
>> article so scarce today, that could cover from the delight of the movies he
>> loved to technical questions of historiography. I remember, smiling to
>> myself, hearing from him at a table in Carla Pernambuco's little bistro in
>> Sao Paulo:
>>
>> how nice we can sit like this and talk about so many other subjects than
>> design!
>>
>>
>>
>> Undoubtedly, all of us will lack his humor, his ability to instigate, and
>> his almost ubiquitous presence in debates about design history. We will
>> still miss our friend.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> João de Souza Leite | PhD, Professor Associado / Associate Professor |
>> Coordenador/Head
>> *Programa Pós-Graduação em Design / Design Graduate Program | PPDEsdi /
>> Uerj*
>> Coordenador TCC 2017 / Coordinator BFA 2017
>> Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial / Universidade do Estado do Rio de
>> Janeiro
>>
>> School of Design / State University of Rio de Janeiro/ Brazil
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