Henry Ford, Mass Production, Modernism, and Design

Henry Ford, Mass Production, Modernism, and Design
Author: Ray Batchelor
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1994
Genre: Automobile industry and trade
ISBN: 9780719041747

Henry Ford is often thought of as being the ultimate American folk hero who developed one of the most important changes to 20th-century American society - mass production. With his successive teams of engineers, Ford developed technologies which placed the motor car at the disposal of millions of people, freeing them from previous notions of distance and space, and re-shaping the modern urban environment worldwide.

Making the Modern

Making the Modern
Author: Terry Smith
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 528
Release: 1993
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0226763471

Smith reveals how this visual revolution played an instrumental role in the complex psychological, social, economic, and technological changes that came to be known as the second industrial revolution. From the role of visualization in the invention of the assembly line, to office and building design, to the corporate and lifestyle images that filled new magazines such as Life and Fortune, he traces the extent to which the second wave of industrialization engaged the visual arts to project a new iconology of progress.

Modernism in Design

Modernism in Design
Author: Paul Greenhalgh
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1997-07-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1861894791

Ten new and important essays on design cover Modernism's fortunes in Germany, Italy, Sweden, Britain, Spain, Belgium and the USA; they range in subject matter from world fairs and everyday domestic objects to American West coast architecture and French and Italian furniture. With essays by Tim Benton, Gillian Naylor, Penny Sparke, Wendy Kaplan, Clive Wainwright, Martin Gaughan, Guy Julier, Mimi Wilms, Julian Holder and Paul Greenhalgh. "The object of this book is to diffuse myths. If modernism has, in the past, been both absurdly praised and absurdly damned, Modernism in Design seeks to lift it out of this cycle, and to demonstrate that the modern movement could offer neither Jerusalem nor Babylon ... In this, the book succeeds admirably."—Designer's Journal "While this collection of essays is aimed primarily at design historians and students of design history, hard-pressed practising designers and architects should make room for it on their bookshelves."—Design

Michigan Modern

Michigan Modern
Author: Amy Arnold
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 740
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1423644980

Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America is an impressive collection of important essays touching on all aspects of Michigan’s architecture and design heritage. The Great Lakes State has always been known for its contributions to twentieth-century manufacturing, but it’s only beginning to receive wide attention for its contributions to Modern design and architecture. Brian D. Conway, Michigan’s State Historic Preservation Officer, and Amy L. Arnold, project manager for Michigan Modern, have curated nearly thirty essays and interviews from a number of prominent architects, academics, architectural historians, journalists, and designers, including historian Alan Hess, designers Mira Nakashima, Ruth Adler Schnee, and Todd Oldham, and architect Gunnar Birkerts, describing Michigan’s contributions to Modern design in architecture, automobiles, furniture and education.

Henry Ford

Henry Ford
Author: John Cunningham Wood
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2003
Genre: Automobile industry and trade
ISBN: 9780415248259

Albert Kahn's Industrial Architecture

Albert Kahn's Industrial Architecture
Author: Thorsten Bürklin
Publisher: Birkhaüser
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Architecture, Industrial
ISBN: 9783035618099

Albert Kahn is probably the most important industrial architect of the 20th century. With his factory for the Ford T models, designed for mass production, he found himself at the beginning of modern industrial architecture. His industrial buildings inspired the architects of European Modernism. They were the examples by which the structural rationality of Kahn's industrial developments became the guiding principle for the New Building movement up until today. The unrivalled monograph with its numerous photographs, plan layouts, site plans, and virtual 3D models comprehensively documents the buildings of Albert Kahn, which he was able to construct in a very short time due to his system-based working method - in the USA but also in the Soviet Union, Brazil, Sweden, France, China, Japan, and Australia.

The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical

The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical
Author: Mauro F. Guillén
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2008-10-26
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0691138478

Not a traditional architectural history but rather a sociological study of the profession of architecture during its early modernist period, this text provides an understanding of the degree to which modernist architecture emerged from a tradition of engineering and industrial management.

I Invented the Modern Age

I Invented the Modern Age
Author: Richard Snow
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2013-05-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1451645570

An account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model-T, the machine that defined twentieth-century America.

Design: The Key Concepts

Design: The Key Concepts
Author: Catherine McDermott
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2007-10-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1134361807

This is the essential student’s guide to Design – its practice, its theory and its history. Respected design writer Catherine McDermott draws from a wide range of international examples.