From Autos To Architecture

Author : David Gartman
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568989600

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One of the most interesting questions in architectural history is why modern architecture emerged from the war-ravaged regions of central Europe and not the United States, whose techniques of mass production and mechanical products so inspired the first generation of modern architects like Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Walter Gropius. In From Autos to Architecture, sociologist David Gartman offers a critical social history that shows how Fordist mass production and industrial architecture in America influenced European designers to an extent previously not understood. Drawing on Marxist economics, the Frankfurt School, and French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, From Autos to Architecture deftly illustrates the different class structures and struggles of America and Europe. Examining architecture in the context of social conflicts, From Autos to Architecture offers a critical alternative to standard architectural histories focused on aesthetics alone.

Author : Ivan Margolius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000-04-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015054379220

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Automobiles by Architects by Ivan Margolius Pdf

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.

Author : Antonio Amado
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262015363

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Voiture Minimum by Antonio Amado Pdf

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 never embraced. Le Corbusier, who famously called a house “a machine for living,” was fascinated—even obsessed—by another kind of machine, the automobile. His writings were strewn with references to autos: “If houses were built industrially, mass-produced like chassis, an aesthetic would be formed with surprising precision,” he wrote in Toward an Architecture (1923). In his “white phase” of the twenties and thirties, he insisted that his buildings photographed with a modern automobile in the foreground. Le Corbusier moved beyond the theoretical in 1936, entering (with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret) an automobile design competition, submitting plans for “a minimalist vehicle for maximum functionality,” the Voiture Minimum. Despite Le Corbusier's energetic promotion of his design to several important automakers, the Voiture Minimum was never mass-produced. This book is the first to tell the full and true story of Le Corbusier's adventure in automobile design. Architect Antonio Amado describes the project in detail, linking it to Le Corbusier's architectural work, to Modernist utopian urban visions, and to the automobile design projects of other architects including Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright. He provides abundant images, including many pages of Le Corbusier's sketches and plans for the Voiture Minimum, and reprints Le Corbusier's letters seeking a manufacturer. Le Corbusier's design is often said to have been the inspiration for Volkswagen's enduringly popular Beetle; the architect himself implied as much, claiming that his design for the 1936 competition originated in 1928, before the Beetle. Amado Lorenzo, after extensive examination of archival and source materials, disproves this; the influence may have gone the other way. Although many critics considered the Voiture Minimum a footnote in Le Corbusier's career, Le Corbusier did not. This book, lavishly illustrated and exhaustively documented, restores Le Corbusier's automobile to the main text.

Author : Philip Jodidio
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781864703306

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Architecture and Automobiles by Philip Jodidio Pdf

This book explores the interconnected relationship between cars and buildings

Author : Jonathan Bell
Publisher : Birkhaüser
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015053509751

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Carchitecture by Jonathan Bell Pdf

The automobile has brought about changes to the landscape that are nothig short of revolutionary. The dramatic reconfiguration of cities and the countryside to accomodate our taste for freedom of movement has been matched by a change in the way buildings themselves have been planned. Today, CAAD and car-building techniques have opened up new possibilities for architectural design and this book, edited by the London-based architect Alex de Rijke, argues taht the influence of the car on architectural and ruan thinking is greater than ever. De Rijke's selection of ideas, photographs, texts and completed projects by a variety of architects explores the parellel development of cars and architecture during the second half of the twentieth century, and provides a compelling manifesto for the future of building design.

Author : Moshe Safdie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429976384

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The City After The Automobile by Moshe Safdie Pdf

In an age of virtual offices, urban flight, and planned gated communities, are cities becoming obsolete? In this passionate manifesto, Moshe Safdie argues that as crucibles for creative, social, and political interaction, vital cities are an organic and necessary part of human civilization. If we are to rescue them from dispersal and decay, we must first revise our definition of what constitutes a city.Unlike many who believe that we must choose between cities and suburbs, between mass transit and highways, between monolithic highrises and panoramic vistas, Safdie envisions a way to have it all. Effortless mobility throughout a region of diverse centers, residential communities, and natural open spaces is the key to restoring the rich public life that cities once provided while honoring our profound desire for privacy, flexibility, and freedom. With innovations such as transportation nodes, elevated moving sidewalks, public utility cars, and buildings designed to maximize daylight, views, and personal interaction, Safdie's proposal challenges us all to create a more satisfying and humanistic environment.

Author : Jan P. Norbye
Publisher : TAB/Electronics
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : PSU:000016649217

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Car Design by Jan P. Norbye Pdf

Author : Daniel Kaven
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035624403

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Architecture of Normal by Daniel Kaven Pdf

A multimedia exploration of the morphology of architecture in the American Southwest as defined by evolving modes of transportation. In examining advances in transportation, the book asks how we have come to acquiesce to the monotonous, isolating, and aesthetically bankrupt landscape of suburbia. It also casts predictions about how the future built landscape will look as it continues to adapt to patterns of human movement.

Author : Richie Herink
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1604148594

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The Car Is Architecture by Richie Herink Pdf

Cars were one of Frank Lloyd Wright's great obsessions, along with Architecture and Japanese Prints. The last two have been well documented, but the Cars have not been covered at all ... until this book.This unique visual history of Wright's 85 cars and one motorcycle uses original magazine ads to describe the make and model of each vehicle. The vehicles are presented in the order in which they were purchased and used.

Author : Norman Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 8494146211

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Havana by Norman Foster Pdf

In the living theatre that is Havana today, the stage is the street, the scenery is the façades of buildings and the players, who bring the whole drama to life, are the colourful cars and people." Norman Foster Norman Foster's visits to Havana over the past ten years have enabled him to meet a variety of Cuban artists and architects. Inspired by his travels, Havana. Autos and Architecture features historic and current photographs that allow the reader to marvel over Cuba's love affair with classic cars. In it, Mauricio Vicent guides us through Cuba's tumultuous history, seamlessly blending its automobiles and architecture through the stories of different Havana locals.

Author : Thijs Demeulemeester,Thomas De Bruyne,Bert Voet
Publisher : Lannoo Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9401461031

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Carchitecture by Thijs Demeulemeester,Thomas De Bruyne,Bert Voet Pdf

Takes you on a trip through some iconic houses and the unique cars that match them in elegance of design and construction

Author : Miroslaw Staron
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030659394

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Automotive Software Architectures by Miroslaw Staron Pdf

This book introduces the concept of software architecture as one of the cornerstones of software in modern cars. Following a historical overview of the evolution of software in modern cars and a discussion of the main challenges driving that evolution, Chapter 2 describes the main architectural styles of automotive software and their use in cars’ software. Chapter 3 details this further by presenting two modern architectural styles, i.e. centralized and federated software architectures. In Chapter 4, readers will find a description of the software development processes used to develop software on the car manufacturers’ side. Chapter 5 then introduces AUTOSAR – an important standard in automotive software. Chapter 6 goes beyond simple architecture and describes the detailed design process for automotive software using Simulink, helping readers to understand how detailed design links to high-level design. The new chapter 7 reports on how machine learning is exploited in automotive software e.g. for image recognition and how both on-board and off-board learning are applied. Next, Chapter 8 presents a method for assessing the quality of the architecture – ATAM (Architecture Trade-off Analysis Method) – and provides a sample assessment, while Chapter 9 presents an alternative way of assessing the architecture, namely by using quantitative measures and indicators. Subsequently Chapter 10 dives deeper into one of the specific properties discussed in Chapter 8 – safety – and details an important standard in that area, the ISO/IEC 26262 norm. Lastly, Chapter 11 presents a set of future trends that are currently emerging and have the potential to shape automotive software engineering in the coming years. This book explores the concept of software architecture for modern cars and is intended for both beginning and advanced software designers. It mainly aims at two different groups of audience – professionals working with automotive software who need to understand concepts related to automotive architectures, and students of software engineering or related fields who need to understand the specifics of automotive software to be able to construct cars or their components. Accordingly, the book also contains a wealth of real-world examples illustrating the concepts discussed and requires no prior background in the automotive domain. Compared to the first edition, besides the two new chapters 3 and 7 there are considerable updates in chapters 5 and 8 especially.

Author : Chris van Uffelen
Publisher : Braun Pub Ag
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3037680733

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Automobile Architecture by Chris van Uffelen Pdf

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 stations and showrooms.

Author : Kathryn A. Morrison,John Minnis
Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300187041

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Carscapes by Kathryn A. Morrison,John Minnis Pdf

When the motor car first came to England in the 1890s, it was a luxury item with little practical purpose--drivers couldn't travel very far or quickly without paved roads or traffic laws. Thus began a transformation that has affected the architecture, infrastructure, and even the natural environment of the country. Carscapes relates the history of the car's impact on the physical environment of England from its early beginnings to the modern motorway network, focusing especially on its architectural influence. The authors offer a detailed look at the litany of structures designed specifically to accommodate cars: garages, gas stations, car parks, factories, and showrooms. Presenting a comprehensive study of these buildings, along with highways, bridges, and signage, Carscapes reveals the many overlooked ways in which automobiles have shaped the modern English landscape. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Author : George Ledwell Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : EHC:148100092227-

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The Auto-biography of an Octogenarian Architect, Being: a Record of His Studies at Home and Abroad, During 65 Years, Comprising Among the Subjects by George Ledwell Taylor Pdf