1978. Realizace a projekty v současné architektuře [book cover] Soudobé české umění. Prague: Odeon [book, 72 pages; in Czech].
1979a. "[Review of] Charles A. Jencks, The Language of Post-Modern Architecture. Academy Editions, London 1977." Umění [Prague] XXVII (3): 262-66 [in Czech].
1980a. "K pojmu účelnosti ve funkcionalismu." In Aktuálnost československé meziválečné fotografie, 65-79, ed. J. Vránová. Brno [Czechoslovakia]: Dům umění města Brna [in Czech].
1981b. "Výstava architektury Otakara Novotného." Umění [Prague] XXIX (2):? [in Czech].
1986a."En bjřrnetjeneste for norsk design." Morgenbladet [Oslo], 17. november [in Norwegian].
1986b. "En Coca Cola-utstilling som faller mellom to stoler." Morgenbladet [Oslo], 10. oktober [in Norwegian].
1986c. "Funksjonalismen eller formgiveren i Historiens tjeneste." In Nordisk funktionalisme 1925-1950, 23-30. Ed. M. Gelfer-Jřrgensen. Copenhagen: Nordisk forum for formgivningshistorie [in Norwegian].
1986d. "Lunningprisen og skandinavisk design." Morgenbladet [Oslo], 8. desember, 5 [in Norwegian].
1987a. "Norské sedačky Balans." Umění a řemesla [Prague] (4) :57-61 [in Czech].
1987b. "Til glede for bymiljřet - men klřner řdelegger." Morgenbladet [Oslo], 26. mars [in Norwegian].
* 1988a. "Is there a duty to be modern?" In Tradizione e Modernismo: Design 1918/1940. Tradition and Modernism: Design Between the Wars, ed. A. Pansera. Milano: L'Arca Edizioni [approx. 4,270 words].
1988b. "Om status, konkurranse, funksjonalisme og industri." In Norsk form '88: Aktuell design i norsk industriproduksjon [exhibition catalogue], ed. R. Gaustad and U. Tarras-Wahlberg. Oslo: Landsforbundet Norsk Form [approx. 4,430 words; in Norwegian].
1989a. "design" [hovedartikkel]. In Aschehoug og Gyldendals STORE NORSKE leksikon: Supplement 1989, ed. E. Tveterĺs og K. A. Tvedt. Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget [approx. 2,290 words; in Norwegian].
1989b. "Form fřlger HVA?!? Formgiverens funksjonsbegrep som et carte blanche." Samtiden [Oslo] (2):32-38 [in Norwegian].
* 1989c. "Industrial design and social equality."In Den stora nordiska utstälningen i Křpenhamn 1888, ed. S. Parko. Helsinki: Nordisk forum för formgivningshistoria [approx. 3,580 words].
* 1989d. "On forms following functions and Post-Modernism." Pro Forma [Oslo] 1:5-15.
1990a. "En bok med mange ansikter." [Review of Arne Ĺse, Water Colour on Porcelain: A Guide to the Use of Water-Soluble Colourants, Norwegian University Press, Oslo 1989] Kunsthĺndverk [Oslo] (36): 22-24 [approx. 1,710 words; in Norwegian].
1990b. "Godt grunnlag for OL-design." Arkitektnytt [Oslo] (11): 234 [approx. 1,250 words; in Norwegian].
1990c. "Modernismus versus historismus dnes: Myšlenky o nutnosti překonání jednoho podmíněného reflexu." Tvar [Prague] (39):6 [approx. 1,480 words; in Czech].
1990d. "Regulace estetické kvality a soutěž." Umění a řemesla [Prague] (4): 6-8 [approx. 2,490 words; in Czech].
* 1991a. "Alvar Aalto: Savoy Vase, 1936." In Contemporary Masterworks, ed. C. Naylor. Chicago and London: St. James Press [approx. 1,510 words].
1991b. "Form fřlger HVA?!? Formgivernes funksjonsbegrep som et carte blanche." In EST I Grunnlagsproblemer i estetisk forskning, ed. K. Gundersen and S. Wikshĺland. Oslo: Norges allmennvitenskapelige forskningsrĺd [in Norwegian].
* 1991c. "On the Rumor of Functional Perfection." Pro Forma [Oslo] 2:67-81 [approx. 6,790 words].
* 1991e. "Why design?" Scandinavian Newsletter [Den Haag] (6): 3 [approx. 830 words].
1992a. "[14 encyclopaedia articles on Norwegian designers and design historians] "Abry, Emil; Farstad, Per; Houghton, John; Haars, Peter; Tandberg, Roy; Tvengsberg, Nils; Eckhoff, Sigrid; Hřyland, Roar; Wingrei, Esben; Glambek, Ingeborg; Halén, Vidar; Gaustad, Randi; Thue, Anniken; Tarras Wahlberg Bře, Ulla". In Aschehoug og Gyldendals STORE NORSKE leksikon: Supplement 1992, ed. E. Tveterĺs og K. A. Tvedt. Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget [approx. 1,300 words; in Norwegian].
* 1992b. "[Review of] Väkevä, Seppo, ed. Product Semantics '89. Helsinki: Publications of the University of Industrial Arts UIAH A4, 1990; Vihma, Susann, ed. Semantic Visions in Design. Helsinki: Publications of the University of Industrial Arts UIAH A7, 1990." Scandinavian Journal of Design History [Copenhagen] 2: 123-7 [approx. 3,110 words].
* 1992c. "The crisis of modernist design pedagogy - and its (possibly) gratifying consequences for museums of applied art." Scandinavian Journal of Design History [Copenhagen] 2: 119-22 [approx. 3,050 words].
1992d. "design" [hovedartikkel]. In Aschehoug og Gyldendals STORE NORSKE leksikon: Supplement 1992, ed. E. Tveterĺs og K. A. Tvedt. Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget [approx. 2,020 words; in Norwegian].
1992e. "Fredrik Wildhagen er dřd." Kunsthĺndverk [Oslo] [approx. 450 words; in Norwegian].
1992f. "Om den modernistiske designpedagogikkens fallitt og om fallittens (muligens) gledelige konsekvenser for kunstindustrimuseene." In Kontekst og perspektiv: de kunstindustrielle museer og den industrielle design, ed. M. Gelfer-Jřrgensen: Copenhagen [approx. 3,220 words; in Norwegian].
1992g. "Var funksjonalismen en type formalisme? Formgivernes funksjonsbegrep som et carte blanche." In Foreningen til norske fortidsminnesmerkers bevaring. Ĺrbok 1992, ed. S. Heinonen. Oslo: Forening til norske fortidsminnesmerkers bevaring [in Norwegian / English summary].
1993a. "Hva rommer en formgitt gjenstand?" In Elg i storm: en utstilling om kvalitet og smak, ed. L. Mannila. Oslo: Norsk Form [approx. 1,880 words; in Norwegian].
* 1993b. "Institutional framework around successful art forms in communist Czechoslovakia:" Description of a Central European University research project: CEU Prague [approx. 1,860 words].
* 1993c. "Taking Taste Seriously: Peter Lloyd Jones on the Role of Appreciation in Consumerism and Design." Scandinavian Journal of Design History [Copenhagen] 3: 113-17 [approx. 3,750 words].
* 1994a. "[Review of] Kaiser, Birgit. Den ideologiske funktionalisme. Křbenhavn: Gad, 1992." The Scandinavian Journal of Design History [Copenhagen] 4: 114-118 [approx. 3,600 words].
1994b. "Myšlienka funkčnej dokonalosti: o povahe vecí, designe, ekológii a funkcionalizme I." Designum [Bratislava] 1 (2): 50-51 [approx. 2,250 words; in Slovak].
1994c. "Myšlienka funkčnej dokonalosti: o povahe vecí, designe, ekológii a funkcionalizme; II. cast." Designum [Bratislava] 1 (3): 48-49 [approx. 2,260 words; in Slovak].
1995a. "design." In Nová encyklopedie českeho výtvarného umění, ed. A. Horova. Prague: Academia [approx. 1,450 words; in Czech].
* 1995b. "Form follows WHAT ? The modernist notion of function as a carte blanche." 1:50 - Magazine of the Faculty of Architecture & Town Planning [Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel] (10, Winter): 31-20 [approx. 8,500 words].
1995c. "Příklady táhnou: O krizi funkcionalistické bezpříkladové pedagogiky a budoucí roli uměleckoprůmyslových muzeí." In Kulturní fenomén funkcionalismu / The Cultural Phenomenon of Functionalism, ed. L. Ševeček. Zlín: Státní galerie Zlín [Czech republic] [approx. 3,610 words; in Czech].
1996a. [35 dictionary articles on Norwegian designers and applied artists] "NORVÉGE, ABRY, ANISDAHL, BLĹVARP, BONGARD, DYSTHE, ECKHOFF S., ECKHOFF T., FARSTAD, FINGER, FLOR, FUGLEVAAG, GJELSETH, GULBRANDSEN, GUSRUD, HANSEN, HAARS, HEIBERG, HOPE, HOUGHTON, JOHANSSON, JUTREM, KITTELSEN, LARSEN, LISLERUD, MOTZFELDT, NILSEN, OLDANI, OPSVIK, RELLING, STURE, THORSEN, TVENGSBERG, VIGELAND, WINGEREI, ĹSE." In Dictionnaire international des arts appliqués et du design. ed. A. Barré-Despond, Paris: Editions du Regard [approx. 7,500 words; in French].
1996b. "form fřlger funksjon." In Aschehoug og Gyldendals STORE NORSKE leksikon, 3. utgave, ed. E. Tveterĺs og K. A. Tvedt. Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget [approx. 320 words; in Norwegian].
1996c. "formgivning" [hovedartikkel]. In Aschehoug og Gyldendals STORE NORSKE leksikon: Supplement 1996, ed. E. Tveterĺs og K. A. Tvedt. Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget [approx. 600 words; in Norwegian].
* 1996d.
Institutional Framework Around Successful Art Forms in Communist Czechoslovakia. First part of a project financed by the RSS / Open Society Institute, Prague, Czech Republic and published online by
Research Support Scheme E-Library (PDF format) in March 2000 [approx. 29,400 words].
1996e. "Modernismens to designdoktriner: funksjonalisme og 'abstraksjonisme'." In Art Deco - Funkis - Scandinavian Design, ed. W. Halén. Oslo: Orfeus forlag [approx. 9,010 words; in Norwegian / English summary].
* 1997a. "[Review of] Widengren, Gunilla, ed. (1994) Tanken och handen: Konstfack 150 ĺr. Stockholm: Page One Publishing." Scandinavian Journal of Design History [Křbenhavn] (7):149-54 [approx. 3,620 words].
1997b. "industridesign" In Aschehoug og Gyldendals STORE NORSKE leksikon, 3. utgave, ed. E. Tveterĺs og K. A. Tvedt. Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget [approx. 1,700 words; in Norwegian].
1997d. "Příběh vázy Savoy: Design Alvar Aalto, 1936." Umění a řemesla [Prague] (1) [approx. 1,290 words; in Czech].
1998a. "Dva různé osudy? Užité umění a design v Československu." Umění a řemesla [Prague] 39 (2): 70-74 [approx. 2,000 words; in Czech].
* 1998b. "[Review of] Lasse Brunnström, red. Svensk industridesign: En 1900-talshistoria. Stockholm: Nordstedts, 1997." Scandinavian Journal of Design History (8):126-141 [approx.11,600 words].
* 1999."
[Review of] Marianne Aav and Nina Stritzler-Levine, eds. Finnish Modern Design: Utopian Ideals and Everyday Realities, 1930-1997. New Haven and London: The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts and Yale University Press, 1998." Scandinavian Journal of Design History (9):134-39 [approx.4,540 words].
2000. "Nejdřív to hlavní - nebo nejdřív to naše? Manifest přesycených profesionálů." Bulletin (12):5 [měsíčník Design Centra České republiky, Brno]
[a critical commentary in Czech to First Things First 2000, a manifesto of graphic designers edited by the British design writer Rick Poynor, presented at the International Bienale of graphic design in Brno in June 2000, and published earlier in Czech translation in Bulletin nr.9, 2000].
2001. "Ĺ se design som redesign: Formgivningsdidaktiske betraktninger." Designjournalen [Stockholm] forthcoming [approx. 10,100 words; in Norwegian].
* 2001. "Towards a Disciplinary Identity of the Making Professions: An Introduction." [co-written with Halina Dunin-Woyseth] In Towards a Disciplinary Identity of the Making Professions: The Oslo Millennium Reader" Edited together with Halina Dunin-Woyseth. Oslo School of Architecture, Oslo (20 pages).
* 2001. Towards a Disciplinary Identity of the Making Professions: The Oslo Millennium Reader" Edited together with Halina Dunin-Woyseth. Oslo School of Architecture, Oslo (182 pages). The Reader exists both as an online pdf-text and a printed book; for book orders, visit AHO homepage under Publikasjoner til salgs". The Reader includes articles by Halina Dunin-Woyseth and Jan Michl, Jonathan M. Woodham, Michael Astroh, Louise Pelletier, John McKean, Pier Giorgio Gerosa, Barrie Needham, and summaries of doctoral dissertations written by Bjřrn Normann Sandaker, Thorleif Uchermann Skjřnsberg and Elisabeth Tostrup.]
* 2002. "On Seeing Design as Redesign: An Exploration of a Neglected Problem in Design Education." Scandinavian Journal of Design History nr. 12, 2002: 7-23.
2003. "Ĺ se design som redesign: Formivningsdidaktiske betraktninger." In Utforskning / Ĺrbok 2003, edited by Erling Dokk-Holm, Oslo: AHO, 248-67 [approx. 10,900 words].
2003. Tak nám prý forma sleduje funkci: Sedm úvah o designu vůbec a o chápání funkcionalismu zvláště. [= So form follows function, right? Seven essays on design in general, and on interpretations of functionalism in particular.] Praha: VŠUP. ISBN 80-901982-7-9 [book, 262 pages; in Czech]. [Book cover] [Book reviews by: Dalibor Veselý in Architekt 5, 2004: 74 (in Czech);
Jindřich Vybíral in Dějiny a současnost 5/2004 (in Czech) here; Miroslav Hrdina in Ars 38, 2005, nr. 1: 75-79 (in Slovak); Milan Hlaveš in Glassrevue 17/2006 (in Czech) here.
2004. "Bakom ordet design." Bulletin [Norsk Form, Oslo] nr. 41-1/2004, 4-5 [approx. 720 words; in Norwegian].
* 2004. [Review of] "Dickson, Thomas. Designforskning: en international oversigt. Aarhus: Arkitektskolens Forlag, 2002." Scandinavian Journal of Design History [Copenhagen] nr. 12, 2004:82-88 [approx. 5,100 words].
* 2005. "The Metaphor of Nudity in Modern Design Thinking." In Pride & Pre-Design: The Cultural Heritage and the Science of Design, edited by Eduardo Côrte-Real et al., 360-64. Lisboa: IADE - Instituto de Artes Visuais Design e Marketing, 2005.
* 2005. "On the Metaphor of Nudity in Modern Design Thinking." In Cumulus Working Papers 14/05 LISBON, edited by Yrjö Sotamaa, 27-32. Helsinki: University of Art and Design Helsinki, 2005 [an ameliorated version of the above; approx. 4,000 words].
2005. "Vidět design jako redesign: Úvaha o jedné přehlížené stránce chápání a vyučování designu." Teorie vědy / Theory of science [Prague] vol. XIV (XXVII), nr. 2, 2005: 135-178 [approx. 11,000 words, excl. bibliography; in Czech].
* 2005. edited with Liv Merete Nielsen. Building a doctoral programme in architecture and design: Appreciations from colleagues and friends of Halina Dunin-Woyseth's contribution on the occasion of her 60th birthday. Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo.
* 2006.
"First things first - or OUR things first?"
[Review of the design manifesto First things first 2000]. Published in TYPO (Prague)
2006 (21):7 [approx. 1,300 words].
* 2006.
"Without a godlike designer no designerlike God: On a mistaken understanding of human artifacts in William Paley, the Intelligent Design proponents, and their opponents among evolutionary biologists." In [Proceedings of the] Design History Society Conference 2006 : Design and Evolution, August 31 - September 2, 2006, edited by T. d. Rijk and J. W. Drukker. Delft: Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
2007.
"Vidět design jako redesign. Úvaha o jedné přehlížené stránce chápání a vyučování designu." In Možnosti vizuálních studií: Obrazy - texty - interpretace, edited by Marta Filipová and Matthew Rampley. Praha: Barrister & Principal, 63-91.
* 2007.
"Am I just seeing things - or is the modernist apartheid regime still in place?"
(A keynote speech, presented at the 2007 Cumulus Conference in Bratislava, Slovakia.)
Unpublished.
2008.
"Sobre el diseńo como rediseńo: Una exploración de un problema olvidado en la enseńanza del diseńo." Ramona: Revista de artes visuales [Buenos Aires] 79 (marzo).
* 2009.
"A case against the modernist apartheid regime in design education."
(An expanded version of the the 2007 Cumulus Conference keynote speech, now with copious endnotes and extensive bibliography.) Unpublished.
* 2009.
"E. H. Gombrich's adoption
of the formula form follows function: A case of mistaken identity?"
Published in Human Affairs (Bratislava, Slovakia) 2009: 19 (274-288).
2011.
"Některé realistické teorie designu z angloamerického světa z posledních padesáti let"
Text přednášky na III. sjezdu českých historiků umění v září 2009, publikovaný ve sborníku Tvarujete si sami? Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové Noviny, 2011.
* 2011.
"The modernist idea of architecture, or Please, do not disturb: Busy producing art historically correct
expressions of the modern epoch." (A paper presented at the School of Architecture Conference "Fixed?", at the Plymouth University, UK, in April 2011.) Unpublished.
2012.
Funkcionalismus, design, škola, trh: Čtrnáct textů o problémech teorie a praxe moderního designu. [= Functionalism, design, school, market: Fourteen texts on the problems of theory and practice of modern design.] Barrister & Principal, Brno a VŠUP, Praha, 2012; 327 stránek + barevné přílohy.
Book cover; zakoupit lze zde.
2013
"Architekti a designéři by měli opustit představu, že moderní doba má pouze jeden správný styl: Rozhovor Františka Mikše s Janem Michlem o problémech teorie a praxe modernistického designu a architektury." Kontexty 1/2013, 52-64. Komentovaná barevná příloha k rozhovoru zde.
* 2013
"Living design history as a tool for better design"
(A paper presented at the European Academy of Design conference "Crafting the Future" in Gothenburg on April 14, 2013, in the section "Design history as a tool for better design".) Unpublished.
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Jan Michl's articles online
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: in English (25)
: in French (1)
: in Norwegian (14)
: in Slovak (1)
: in Spanish (1)
: in Swedish (1)
The author's workplace: Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo, Norway
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