Automobiles

Author : Ivan Margolius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Michael Bowler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788854001084
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Book of Automobiles written by Michael Bowler and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Beverly Rae Kimes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Classic Car written by Beverly Rae Kimes and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven Parissien
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466836237
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of the Automobile written by Steven Parissien and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : G. N. Georgano
Publisher : Dutton Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Automobiles written by G. N. Georgano and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1971 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ken W. Purdy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ken Purdy's Book of Automobiles written by Ken W. Purdy and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph H. Wherry
Publisher : Galahad Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Automobiles of the World written by Joseph H. Wherry and published by Galahad Books. This book was released on 1968 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Janeway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Early Days of Automobiles written by Elizabeth Janeway and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of the automobile.

Author : Jonathan Stein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988273306
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stewardship of Historically Important Automobiles written by Jonathan Stein and published by . This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of stewardship - the ownership of an historical automobile during ones lifetime - has recently gained the focus that it has always deserved. This selfless consideration of preserving the original machines that have contributed significantly to our collective human experience, is presented by the foremost authors, museum directors and ......

Author : R. K. Rajput
Publisher : Firewall Media
ISBN 13 : 9788170089919
Total Pages : 982 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Text Book of Automobile Engineering written by R. K. Rajput and published by Firewall Media. This book was released on 2008 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: