The Car Is Architecture A Visual History Of Frank Lloyd Wright S 85 Cars And One Motorcycle

Author : Richie Herink
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-07
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1604148438

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The Car Is Architecture - A Visual History of Frank Lloyd Wright's 85 Cars and One Motorcycle by Richie Herink Pdf

"This historic publication brings to light the little known fact that the automobile was one of Frank Lloyd Wright's passions and that buying cars was one of his obsessions. Wright, through his Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, owned more cars and more different makes and models of cars than any other architect that ever lived. Wright purchased cars even when he was financially strapped and he often bought several cars at once. Nearly all of his cars were painted Cherokee red, regardless of their original factory color. ... Wright, thereby, turned his cars into Frank Lloyd Wright cars, irrespective of their make and model. ... Because photos of only a few of his cars are available, historic magazine ads that depict, in their illustrations, the year, make and model of each of his cars are used to describe them, thereby providing, in effect, a history of these cars as told via the automobile manufacturers' own magazine advertising."--Preface, page vii.

Author : Ivan Margolius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : 45,8 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 : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0691129371

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Modern Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright Pdf

"Modern concepts concerning an organic architecture, from the work of Frank Lloyd Wright" on lining-papers.

Author : Gabrielle Esperdy
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813943107

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American Autopia by Gabrielle Esperdy Pdf

Early to mid-twentieth-century America was the heyday of a car culture that has been called an "automobile utopia." In American Autopia, Gabrielle Esperdy examines how the automobile influenced architectural and urban discourse in the United States from the earliest days of the auto industry to the aftermath of the 1970s oil crisis. Paying particular attention to developments after World War II, Esperdy creates a narrative that extends from U.S. Routes 1 and 66 to the Las Vegas Strip to California freeways, with stops at gas stations, diners, main drags, shopping centers, and parking lots along the way. While it addresses the development of auto-oriented landscapes and infrastructures, American Autopia is not a conventional history, offering instead an exploration of the wide-ranging evolution of car-centric territories and drive-in typologies, looking at how they were scrutinized by diverse cultural observers in the middle of the twentieth century. Drawing on work published in the popular and professional press, and generously illustrated with evocative images, the book shows how figures as diverse as designer Victor Gruen, geographer Jean Gottmann, theorist Denise Scott Brown, critic J.B. Jackson, and historian Reyner Banham constructed "autopia" as a place and an idea. The result is an intellectual history and interpretive roadmap to the United States of the Automobile.

Author : Donald Leslie Johnson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317133186

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Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities by Donald Leslie Johnson Pdf

Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities examines Wright's belief that all aspects of human life must embrace and celebrate an aesthetic experience that would thereby lead to necessary social reforms. Inherent in the theory was a belief that reform of nineteenth-century gluttony should include a contemporary interpretation of its material presence, its bulk and space, its architectural landscape. This book analyzes Wright's innovative, profound theory of architecture that drew upon geometry and notions of pure design and the indigenous as put into practice. It outlines the design methodology that he applied to domestic and non-domestic buildings and presents reasons for the recognition of two Wright Styles and a Wright School. The book also studies how his design method was applied to city planning and implications of historical and theoretical contexts of the period that surely influenced all of Wright's community and city planning.

Author : Kathryn Smith
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691246413

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Wright on Exhibit by Kathryn Smith Pdf

The first history of Frank Lloyd Wright's exhibitions of his own work—a practice central to his career More than one hundred exhibitions of Frank Lloyd Wright's work were mounted between 1894 and his death in 1959. Wright organized the majority of these exhibitions himself and viewed them as crucial to his self-presentation as his extensive writings. He used them to promote his designs, appeal to new viewers, and persuade his detractors. Wright on Exhibit presents the first history of this neglected aspect of the architect’s influential career. Drawing extensively from Wright’s unpublished correspondence, Kathryn Smith challenges the preconceived notion of Wright as a self-promoter who displayed his work in search of money, clients, and fame. She shows how he was an artist-architect projecting an avant-garde program, an innovator who expanded the palette of installation design as technology evolved, and a social activist driven to revolutionize society through design. While Wright’s earliest exhibitions were largely for other architects, by the 1930s he was creating public installations intended to inspire debate and change public perceptions about architecture. The nature of his exhibitions expanded with the times beyond models, drawings, and photographs to include more immersive tools such as slides, film, and even a full-scale structure built especially for his 1953 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum. Placing Wright’s exhibitions side by side with his writings, Smith shows how integral these exhibitions were to his vision and sheds light on the broader discourse concerning architecture and modernism during the first half of the twentieth century. Wright on Exhibit features color renderings, photos, and plans, as well as a checklist of exhibitions and an illustrated catalog of extant and lost models made under Wright’s supervision.

Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Architects
ISBN : UVA:X006092078

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The Architectural Forum by Frank Lloyd Wright Pdf

Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architects
ISBN : 0764932438

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Frank Lloyd Wright by Frank Lloyd Wright Pdf

Originally published: New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943.

Author : Iain Thomson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architect-designed houses
ISBN : 184013240X

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Frank Lloyd Wright by Iain Thomson Pdf

A must-have for Wright fans and lovers of architecture and design. This comprehensive guide to the life and times of the man widely considered to be one of the most innovative and influential figures in modern architecture provides an A to Z chronicle of Wright's work, family, friends, and the major events that shaped his career. Over 1,000 stunning color photographs include interior and exterior shots of his most acclaimed architectural masterpieces.

Author : Kathryn Smith
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0870700553

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The Show to End All Shows by Kathryn Smith Pdf

Discussion and documents relating to an exhibition called "Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect", held at the Museum of Modern Art from Nov. 12, 1940 to Jan. 5, 1941.

Author : David Gebhard,Harriette Von Breton
Publisher : Hennessey & Ingalls
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015046010909

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Lloyd Wright, Architect by David Gebhard,Harriette Von Breton Pdf

While the formidable reputation of his father overshadows him, Lloyd Wright (1890-1972) and his work are drawing more and more attention. This, the only monograph on his buildings and projects, grew out of an 1971 exhibition held at UC Santa Barbara. After an apprenticeship under Irving Gill, Lloyd Wright moved to Los Angeles, where he was landscaper and construction supervisor for several of his father's projects, including the Hollyhock House. His own work took off from his father's, being even bolder and more expressionistic, perhaps a reflection of his early work in the department at Paramount Pictures. His most famous building is the Sowden house, while other projects include the first two shells for the Hollywood Bowl and the Wayfarers Chapel in Palos Verdes.

Author : Thijs Demeulemeester,Thomas De Bruyne,Bert Voet
Publisher : Lannoo Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Robert McCarter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8833918866

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Frank Lloyd Wright by Robert McCarter Pdf

Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Furniture
ISBN : UOM:39015006783495

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Frank Lloyd Wright: Vision and Legacy by Frank Lloyd Wright Pdf