Lorenzo, Antonio Amado (Author)
MIT Press
Edition Details: Translated by Penelope Hierons and Barbara E. Duffus.
Physical Details: xii + 351 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English
"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 ... In his 'white phase' of the twenties and thirties, he insisted that his buildings be 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. The story is supported by many images and documents, including architects' favorite cars, sketches and models of the Voiture Minimum, and copies of Le Corbusier's correspondence with prospective manufacturers."--Dust jacket.
...MoreReview Benton, Tim (2012) Review of "Voiture Minimum: Le Corbusier and the Automobile". Journal of Design History (p. 239).
Similar Citations
Article
Starr, Fred;
(2014)
Design and Development of Exhaust Valves for Internal Combustion Engines from the Perspective of Modern Thinking: Part 2 1930--90
(/isis/citation/CBB001201530/)
Article
Greenstein, David E.;
(2014)
Assembling Fordizm: The Production of Automobiles, Americans, and Bolsheviks in Detroit and Early Soviet Russia
(/isis/citation/CBB001201851/)
Article
Firsov, Alexander;
(2013)
B. G. Loutzkoy--Creator of the Unique Wheels for Airplanes, Automobiles and “Flying Saucers”
(/isis/citation/CBB001321273/)
Article
Heathcott, Joseph;
(2013)
Ephemeral City: Design and Civic Meaning at the 1904 World's Fair
(/isis/citation/CBB001201124/)
Article
Sovacool, Benjamin K.;
Brossmann, Brent;
(2013)
Fantastic Futures and Three American Energy Transitions
(/isis/citation/CBB001320573/)
Book
Gregory Votolato;
(2015)
Car
(/isis/citation/CBB210863924/)
Essay Review
Seiler, Cotten;
(2010)
Author Response: The Ends of Automobility
(/isis/citation/CBB001567127/)
Article
Charles K. Hyde;
(1996)
Assembly-Line Architecture: Albert Kahn and the Evolution of the U.S. Auto Factory, 1905-1940
(/isis/citation/CBB618737316/)
Book
Elias, Jamal J.;
(2010)
On Wings of Diesel: Trucks, Identity and Culture in Pakistan
(/isis/citation/CBB001202142/)
Essay Review
Parker, Jeremy;
(2010)
Automobility and Apparatuses: Commentary on Cotten Seiler's Republic of Drivers
(/isis/citation/CBB001567124/)
Article
Borg, Kevin;
(2012)
Les sens perdus du garagiste. Comment le savoir-faire a été disqualifié dans l'univers automobile américain
(/isis/citation/CBB001200686/)
Essay Review
Gudis, Catherine;
(2010)
Driving Consumption
(/isis/citation/CBB001567125/)
Book
Wells, Christopher W.;
(2012)
Car Country: An Environmental History
(/isis/citation/CBB001320937/)
Essay Review
Collins, Martin;
(2010)
Introduction
(/isis/citation/CBB001567123/)
Book
Seiler, Cotten;
(2008)
Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America
(/isis/citation/CBB000954031/)
Essay Review
Flonneau, Mathieu;
(2010)
Read Tocqueville, or Drive? A European Perspective on US “Automobilization”
(/isis/citation/CBB001567126/)
Book
Lucsko, David N.;
(2008)
The Business of Speed: The Hot Rod Industry in America, 1915--1990
(/isis/citation/CBB000952155/)
Article
Bijsterveld, Karin;
(2010)
Acoustic Cocooning: How the Car Became a Place to Unwind
(/isis/citation/CBB001035712/)
Book
Mathieu Flonneau;
(2016)
L'automobile : au Temps des Trente Glorieuses: Un Rêve D’automobilisme [Automobile During the Glorious Thirties: Automobilism’s Dream]
(/isis/citation/CBB551018895/)
Book
Yanik, Anthony J.;
(2009)
Maxwell Motor and the Making of Chrysler Corporation
(/isis/citation/CBB000954281/)
Be the first to comment!