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Re: Victor Margolin, a tribute

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Sorry folks, I too have fallen foul of the list setting that replies to the list rather than the individual. And I got the wrong person too. Oops.

kind regards
David

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David Durling HonFDRS PhD   http://durling.tel









> On 16 Dec 2019, at 18:12, DAVID DURLING <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> I read your tribute to Victor on the phd-design list, and thought it a splendid personal view of the man. I would like to use your text as an obituary in Design Research News which will go out to over 9000 folks this week.
> 
> Do I have your permission to re-use your text? I will of course credit you as the author.
> 
> kind regards
> David
> 
> ____________________________________
> 
> David Durling HonFDRS PhD   http://durling.tel
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On 1 Dec 2019, at 17:24, João DeSouzaLeite <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> 
>> *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
>> 
>> DRS Design Research Society, member
>> 
>> http://uerj.academia.edu/JoãodeSouzaLeite
>> 
>> Curriculum Lattes
>> http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4781268E4
>> <http://uerj.academia.edu/Jo%C3%A3odeSouzaLeite>
>> Rua do Passeio 80, Centro, Rio de Janeiro – RJ, 20021-290
>> 
>> Endereço/Home address
>> Rua General Artigas 361 #903  Leblon  22441-140  Rio de Janeiro, RJ  Brasil
>> Telefone (55+21) 9.9768.8608
>> 
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