Titre et auteur:

Streamlined : a metaphor for progress : the esthetics of minimized drag / [edited by Claude Lichtenstein, Franz Engler].

Publication:

[Baden, Switzerland] : Lars Muüller, [199-?]

Description:

271 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
"This publication is based on the catalogue ... for the Stromlinienform exhibition in the Museum für Gestaltung (Design Museum) Zurich, Switzerland. The exhibition was also shown in the Bauhaus Dessau and the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum Hagen."--Colophon.
Translated from the original German.
"This publication is based on the catalogue (ISBN 390670047X) for the 'Stromlinienform' exhibition in the Museum für Gestaltung ... Zurich, Switzerland. The exhibition was also shown in the Bauhaus Dessau and the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum Hagen ..."--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references (page 270).
Introduction / by Franz Engler and Claude Lichtenstein -- Three portraits, four workshops: Paul Jaray, William B. Stout, Norman Bel Geddes, Wind tunnels and science, Airship hangars with wind-control doors, German test drives, Lightweight construction / Claude Lichtenstein -- Essays. Flying trains -- the development of streamlining on the railways / Sabine Bohle-Heinzenberg -- Aerodynamics the Italian way / Angelo Tito Anselmi -- Streamlining at the world's fair: Chicago 1933/34, New York 1939/40 / Barbara Hauss-Fitton -- Kaleidoscope: a kind of catalogue / Franz Engler and Claude Lichtenstein -- Three source texts: Teardrops, aerodynamics and motor cars -- the falling drop -- not a 'teardrop'! (1924) / Paul Jaray -- The new 'terranautics' (1934) / William B. Stout -- Streamlined trains (1937) / Paul P. Cret.

ISBN:

3906700712
9783906700717
1568980655
9781568980652

Sujet:

Industrial design History.
Motor vehicles Aerodynamics History.
Railroad trains Aerodynamics History.
Aerodynamics.
Design Histoire.
Véhicules automobiles Aérodynamique Histoire.
Trains Aérodynamique Histoire.
Aérodynamique.
aerodynamics.
Industrial design
Motor vehicles Aerodynamics
Railroad trains Aerodynamics
Railroads Trains Aerodynamics History.
Aerodynamics Research History.

Classification/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.
Exhibition catalogs.
History
Books.

Vedettes secondaires:

Lichtenstein, Claude.
Engler, Franz.
Engler, Franz, 1949-

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 121194
Cote: ID TL245.E8; ID:96-B641
Statut: Disponible