Automobiles by Architects

Automobiles by Architects
Author: Ivan Margolius
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2000-04-06
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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.

Those Wonderful Old Automobiles

Those Wonderful Old Automobiles
Author: Floyd Clymer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1953
Genre: Automobile industry and trade
ISBN:

With over 600 photographs, jokes, cartoons, ads, songs, and fond memories of American cars of yesterday.

The Classic Car

The Classic Car
Author: Beverly Rae Kimes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 782
Release: 1990
Genre: Transportation
ISBN:

The Life of the Automobile

The Life of the Automobile
Author: Steven Parissien
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2014-05-13
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1466836237

The Life of the Automobile is the first comprehensive world history of the car. The automobile has arguably shaped the modern era more profoundly than any other human invention, and author Steven Parissien examines the impact, development, and significance of the automobile over its turbulent and colorful 130-year history. Readers learn the grand and turbulent history of the motor car, from its earliest appearance in the 1880s—as little more than a powered quadricycle—and the innovations of the early pioneer carmakers. The author examines the advances of the interwar era, the Golden Age of the 1950s, and the iconic years of the 1960s to the decades of doubt and uncertainty following the oil crisis of 1973, the global mergers of the 1990s, the bailouts of the early twenty-first century, and the emergence of the electric car. This is not just a story of horsepower and performance but a tale of extraordinary people: of intuitive carmakers such as Karl Benz, Sir Henry Royce, Giovanni Agnelli (Fiat), André Citroën, and Louis Renault; of exceptionally gifted designers such as the eccentric, Ohio-born Chris Bangle (BMW); and of visionary industrialists such as Henry Ford, Ferdinand Porsche (the Volkswagen Beetle), and Gene Bordinat (the Ford Mustang), among numerous other game changers. Above all, this comprehensive history demonstrates how the epic story of the car mirrors the history of the modern era, from the brave hopes and soaring ambitions of the early twentieth century to the cynicism and ecological concerns of a century later. Bringing to life the flamboyant entrepreneurs, shrewd businessmen, and gifted engineers that worked behind the scenes to bring us horsepower and performance, The Life of the Automobile is a globe-spanning account of the auto industry that is sure to rev the engines of entrepreneurs and gearheads alike.

Abandon Automobile

Abandon Automobile
Author: Melba Joyce Boyd
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2001
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780814328101

A multicultural anthology of Detroit poetry from the 1930s to the present.

Hudson Automobiles

Hudson Automobiles
Author: Patrick R. Foster
Publisher: Enthusiast Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-10-15
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9781583882665

The Hudson Motorcar Company rose above the fray to establish itself as one of America’s greatest automobile companies. Its legendary Super Six was one of the most coveted autos of its era. It was an important defense supplier during World War II. Then came its radical Step-Down models. Company engineers also developed the powerful and highly-refined Twin-H Power engine, and from 1951-1954 Hudson automobiles completely dominated NASCAR. Hudson is remembered as one of the truly great classics of America’s automotive heritage.

American Cars

American Cars
Author: Craig Cheetham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2004
Genre: Automobiles, American
ISBN: 9780760754481

Description, brief history, and specifications with front, back, side, and top views of 218 popular models from 39 manufacturers. Model years represented range from 1914 to 1999.