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Voiture Minimum : Le Corbusier and the Automobile by Antonio Amado HC/DJ
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- “Unread book, light shelf/storage wear. Excellent condition . Please see the pictures”
- ISBN
- 9780262015363
- Book Title
- Voiture Minimum : Le Corbusier and the Automobile
- Item Length
- 9.4 in
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Art, Architecture, Transportation
- Topic
- Individual Architects & Firms / Monographs, Automotive / History, Criticism & Theory, Individual Architects & Firms / General, European, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
- Item Width
- 9.3 in
- Item Weight
- 55.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
About this product
Product Information
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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262015366
ISBN-13
9780262015363
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102764612
Product Key Features
Book Title
Voiture Minimum : Le Corbusier and the Automobile
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Individual Architects & Firms / Monographs, Automotive / History, Criticism & Theory, Individual Architects & Firms / General, European, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
Publication Year
2011
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Architecture, Transportation
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
9.3 in
Item Weight
55.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Tl240.A52 2011
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
"This beautiful book, wonderfully researched and written, is clearly a labor oflove for architect Amado… there is much in general to be learned and an enjoyable "ride" to behad." -- C.J. Myers , CHOICE, "This beautiful book, wonderfully researched and written, is clearly a labor of love for architect Amado… there is much in general to be learned and an enjoyable "ride" to be had." -- C.J. Myers , CHOICE, "Antonio Amado's central project with this readable and engrossing book is to restore the car to what he considers its rightful place in Le Corbusier's philosophy: at the centre." -- Blueprint, "[T]his is one of those rare coffee-table volumes with an actual thesis, and it nicely combines the history of the automobile with that of architecture in ways that most readers, or perhaps "viewers", will long remember." -- Technology and Culture, [T]his is one of those rare coffee-table volumes with an actual thesis, and it nicely combines the history of the automobile with that of architecture in ways that most readers, or perhaps 'viewers', will long remember., "Antonio Amado's central project with this readable and engrossing book is torestore the car to what he considers its rightful place in Le Corbusier's philosophy: at thecentre." -- Blueprint, "Antonio Amado's central project with this readable and engrossing book is to restore the car to what he considers its rightful place in Le Corbusier's philosophy: at the centre." Blueprint, "An engaging read...the book is almost an exploration of ideas on cars andmobility at this junction in history. Amado is a fluid writer, creating a charming narrative,chapter after chapter building up to the climax that is the story of the car itself." -- Nargess Shahmanesh Banks Design Talks, "This beautiful book, wonderfully researched and written, is clearly a labor oflove for architect Amado... there is much in general to be learned and an enjoyable "ride" to behad." -- C.J. Myers , CHOICE, "An engaging read...the book is almost an exploration of ideas on cars and mobility at this junction in history. Amado is a fluid writer, creating a charming narrative, chapter after chapter building up to the climax that is the story of the car itself." Nargess Shahmanesh Banks Design Talks, "This beautiful book, wonderfully researched and written, is clearly a labor of love for architect Amado_ there is much in general to be learned and an enjoyable "ride" to be had." -- C.J. Myers , CHOICE, This beautiful book, wonderfully researched and written, is clearly a labor of love for architect Amado...there is much in general to be learned and an enjoyable 'ride' to be had., "An engaging read...the book is almost an exploration of ideas on cars and mobility at this junction in history. Amado is a fluid writer, creating a charming narrative, chapter after chapter building up to the climax that is the story of the car itself." -- Nargess Shahmanesh Banks Design Talks, An engaging read...the book is almost an exploration of ideas on cars and mobility at this junction in history. Amado is a fluid writer, creating a charming narrative, chapter after chapter building up to the climax that is the story of the car itself., "[T]his is one of those rare coffee-table volumes with an actual thesis, and itnicely combines the history of the automobile with that of architecture in ways that most readers,or perhaps "viewers", will long remember." -- Technology andCulture, "This beautiful book, wonderfully researched and written, is clearly a labor of love for architect Amado… there is much in general to be learned and an enjoyable "ride" to be had." -- C.J. Myers , CHOICE, Antonio Amado's central project with this readable and engrossing book is to restore the car to what he considers its rightful place in Le Corbusier's philosophy: at the centre.
Copyright Date
2011
Lccn
2010-024737
Dewey Decimal
629.2/31
Dewey Edition
22
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