Design Lost

Design is everywhere. It is not exaggerated that design now dominates our lives. We are living in the crazily fast developing era of design. Designs are for not only small products but also huge architectures. The truth is that we are desired for newer and newer architectures and they are challenging the limits of human beings'sensory organs.There is no doubt that new architecture leads us to a new period of history and culture. However, this is based on destroying tradition, environment and context. If there's no end of the madly developing of super high architecture, will human beings sink into the mess, which is like "building Barber in Bible"?Starting with the research on the phenomenon and symbol of architectures, this paper has studied the development of super high architectures and urban constructions in present China. After that, it analyzes the constructions of ancient Chinese cities, which a comparative approach to study deeply on the present architectures and cities. Moreover, this paper has also attached importance to the logic of the design development and the historical inevitability. Therefore, taking history, politics and economic as the background, and investigating the linkages of architectures and products, design and paintings, music and dance, this research has a judgment that the disordered and unsystematic phenomenon of design is originated from the American consuming culture.Then will design develop following this logic in the future? For the series question, analysis starts from the relation of design and the origin of human beings in last chapter of this thesis. Through the study on the motivation of design activities and the design influence on the process of human history, it discovered that the real meaning of design is'design for survival'. Thus, the responsibility of design to human beings and culture should be redefined. Based on the above researches, the analysis of this whole paper is also a redefinition of design ethics.