Automobiles by Architects

Automobiles by Architects
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 164
Release :
ISBN-10 : UOM:39015054379220
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Book Synopsis Automobiles by Architects by : Ivan Margolius

Download or read book Automobiles by Architects written by Ivan Margolius and published by . This book was released on 2000-04-06 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It may seem extraordinary that architects - designers of stationary objects - should concern themselves with automobile design; but the automobile has long touched architects' imaginations, appearing to them as a house on wheels, as mobile accommodation. When the motor-driven vehicle was invented, architects recognised that its image, form and function would affect the quality of people's lives and their surroundings, and that to propose an automobile was a way to perfect the synthesis of art, design and the latest technology. A number of well-known architects liked to pair the architecture of their houses with their favourite automobiles in order to illustrate the close functional and aesthetic relationship between them. Some believed that their cars had to 'look becoming to' their architecture, and included automobiles in perspective views and photographs of their completed buildings, the result being a harmonising composition of the two elements that stressed their close affinity. The celebrated 'Ten Automobiles' exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1953, with its proclamation that 'automobiles are twentieth-century artefacts', brought into focus the automobile as an influential design object. Architects realised the importance of the automobile as anicon of an era and sought not only to design motorcars but to apply the principles of automotive technology and design to their architecture. This book explores automotive design by leading architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Adolf Loos, Richard Buckminster Fuller, Gio Ponti, Carlo Mollino, Norman Foster, Jan Kaplicky and others and its influence on their architecture.


Automobiles by Architects Related Books

Automobiles by Architects
Language: en
Pages: 164
Authors: Ivan Margolius
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-04-06 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

It may seem extraordinary that architects - designers of stationary objects - should concern themselves with automobile design; but the automobile has long touc
Architecture and Automobiles
Language: en
Pages: 230
Authors: Philip Jodidio
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Images Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book explores the interconnected relationship between cars and buildings
Voiture Minimum
Language: en
Pages: 363
Authors: Antonio Amado
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02-11 - Publisher: MIT Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A colorful account of Le Corbusier's love affair with the automobile, his vision of the ideal vehicle, and his tireless promotion of a design that industry neve
Automobile Architecture
Language: en
Pages: 407
Authors: Chris van Uffelen
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Braun Pub Ag

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book is dedicated to architecture that serves the automobile, showing esthetic and technical solutions of the past few years - from parking garages to gas
Architects + Engineers = Structures
Language: en
Pages: 112
Authors: Ivan Margolius
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-05-22 - Publisher: Academy Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book applauds the union of architecture and engineering both today and throughout the history of building and construction. The relationship between the tw