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Automobile Architecture

Chris van Uffelen

  • Format: Book

  • Pages: 424

  • Publisher: Braun

  • Date Published: May 2011

  • Stock Code: 74649

  • ISBN: 978-3037680735

  • Binding: Paperback

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Description

The automobile has shaped the appearance of our streets for 100 years now. At the same building types have been created to serve it. Parking garages and gas stations as new species of architecture and showrooms whose exhibition spaces and display windows are markedly different from the usual businesses have decisively changed the cities. This book is dedicated to this type of architecture, showing esthetic and technical solutions of the past few years. Not a few architects have been unmistakable car freaks (Frank Lloyd Wright), or been occupied with the automobile (Le Corbusier: Maison Citrohan), or have actually designed cars (Walter Gropius for Adler). This fascination of the profession can also be seen in the architecture built for the automobile today.

About the Author

Chris van Uffelen

Chris van Uffelen, M. A., born in 1966, is an independent art historian and author focusing on medieval architecture, classical modernity and contemporary construction. He wrote several newspaper articles and books on these topics as well as a great number of articles on art and architecture history in general for encyclopedias.

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