Automobiles by Architects
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (538 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 047160786X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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5, 2001) . "This book has no trouble in supplying something eye-opening on almost every page." (Motorsport, April 2001) "This is an unusual publication, containing some interesting illustrations. Purchasers are likely to have something unique on their bookshelves." (The Automobile, September 2000) "a very pleasing booktypeface is clear, simple and elegant and there is no shortage of images" (ARQ (Architectural Research Quarterly), Vol
. Ivan Margolius is an architect and the author of a number of articles and books on architecture, design and automobiles including Cubism in Architecture and the Applied Arts (1979), Tatra - The Legacy of Hans Ledwinka (1990), Skoda Laurin & Klement (1992), Prague - a guide to twentieth-century architecture (1994, 1996) and
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. 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. 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. 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 e
A unique, fascinating survey Mel Byars We are recommending this book to the visitors of the designzine.com Web site, the online newsstand for design. While many of the voracious readers of design book have become familiar with some few auto designs by Le Corbusier, Gropius, and others, there was no intelligent study before this contribution by Ivan Margolius, an architect himself, that so fully documents the subjec