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Author : Gordon Bruce
Release : 2007-01-16
Genre : Design
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Book Rating : 506/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Eliot Noyes by : Gordon Bruce
Download or read book Eliot Noyes written by Gordon Bruce. This book was released on 2007-01-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first publication about Eliot Noyes, an important figure in 20th-century design in America.
Author : John Harwood
Release : 2011-11-15
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 840/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Interface by : John Harwood
Download or read book The Interface written by John Harwood. This book was released on 2011-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " In February 1956 the president of IBM, Thomas Watson Jr., hired the industrial designer and architect Eliot F. Noyes, charging him with reinventing IBM’s corporate image, from stationery and curtains to products such as typewriters and computers and to laboratory and administration buildings. What followed—a story told in full for the first time in John Harwood’s The Interface—remade IBM in a way that would also transform the relationships between design, computer science, and corporate culture. IBM’s program assembled a cast of leading figures in American design: Noyes, Charles Eames, Paul Rand, George Nelson, and Edgar Kaufmann Jr. The Interface offers a detailed account of the key role these designers played in shaping both the computer and the multinational corporation. Harwood describes a surprising inverse effect: the influence of computer and corporation on the theory and practice of design. Here we see how, in the period stretching from the “invention” of the computer during World War II to the appearance of the personal computer in the mid-1970s, disciplines once well outside the realm of architectural design—information and management theory, cybernetics, ergonomics, computer science—became integral aspects of design. As the first critical history of the industrial design of the computer, of Eliot Noyes’s career, and of some of the most important work of the Office of Charles and Ray Eames, The Interface supplies a crucial chapter in the story of architecture and design in postwar America—and an invaluable perspective on the computer and corporate cultures of today. "
Author : William D. Earls
Release : 2006
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 835/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Harvard Five in New Canaan by : William D. Earls
Download or read book The Harvard Five in New Canaan written by William D. Earls. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a virtual tour of some landmark structures in New Canaan, Connecticut, profiling houses by five eminent architects and discussing how the area became a locus of the modern architectural movement's experimentation.
Author : Lorenzo Ottaviani
Release : 2014-10-21
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 858/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Midcentury Houses Today by : Lorenzo Ottaviani
Download or read book Midcentury Houses Today written by Lorenzo Ottaviani. This book was released on 2014-10-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architects Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, Eliot Noyes, Edward Durell Stone, and others created an extraordinary collection of modern houses in New Canaan, Connecticut, in the 1940s and 1950s. The bucolic New England town—a suburb of Manhattan—became the site of fervent experimentation by some of the leading lights of the movement in the United States, the architects known as the Harvard Five, whose modern aesthetic could be traced to the Bauhaus school of design. There they promoted their core principles: simplicity, openness, and sensitivity to site and nature, and built glass, wood, steel, and fieldstone houses that established architectural modernism as the ideal of domesticity in the twentieth century. Architects Jeffrey Matz and Cristina A. Ross, photographer Michael Biondo, and graphic designer Lorenzo Ottaviani present this vanishing generation of iconic American houses as more than an issue of restoration or preservation, but as an evolving legacy that adapts to contemporary life. Selecting a representative group of sixteen houses covering the period between the 1950s and 1978, they portray each one in great detail, with floor plans, timelines, and both archival and luminous new photography—from the clean, minimalist look of the initial construction, to subsequent additions by some of the most significant architects of our time including Toshiko Mori, Roger Ferris, and Joeb Moore. Voices of the architects and builders, original owners and current occupants combine to describe how the houses are enjoyed and lived in today, and how the modernist residence is more than just a philosophy of design and construction, but also a philosophy of living.
Author : Eliot Noyes
Release : 2001
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Book Synopsis Organic Design in Home Furnishings by : Eliot Noyes
Download or read book Organic Design in Home Furnishings written by Eliot Noyes. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
