Building a Concept The Horseless Carriage How did the 19th century automobile become the contemporary car? Manufacturer Henry Ford may have produced the first affordable car, available for the masses, but the Model T did not “look like” a car, it retained the...
Inevitable Design Becoming Modern Art and design define our lives for us, teach us how to function in the world, and, from time to time, produce an object, whether human or inanimate, that is so fulfilling that it become unnecessary to alter the blueprint. Since the...
The Avant-Garde and Design Building Modernity How “Modern” come into Being? Not just how but when, where, and why did modernity emerge? What was the interaction between artists, designers, and the public caught up in the unprecedented events that defined the twentieth...
The First Twin Towers–The Chrysler Building (1930) and the Empire State Building (1931) Part Two: The Empire State Buil In the beginning, the architects who dreamed of tall buildings in the late nineteenth century faced the same problems as their Medieval...
A Fair at the Edge of Time The Futurama of Norman Bel Geddes In the early decades of the twenty-first century, when women speak out and say “Me Too,” one has grown accustomed to the time-honored art historical practice of ignoring the bad behavior of male...
Aerodynamics and the American Home Norman Bel Geddes and Consumerism The American public learned how to spend money on consumer goods in the Roaring Twenties. The Great War had forced the United States to grow up quickly and the techniques of mass production or...
