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Originally Posted by kach22i
Oh wow, I've never really looked into this before - thanks.
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There's a button for that.
I see the hot-link is blocked, I may fix that or not.
Le Corbusier did a car too:
Review> Corb's Car - The Architect's Newspaper
I like the Farm-All Cub. It's the one with the offset engine and the steering shaft down the middle. But I'll save that for the all-tractors thread.
The Square Car ...what's a polite word for sucks? Dump a big block of foam on the consumer and let them figure out the myriad details beneath the skin (like door hinges) for themselves? The wheels, pedal assembly and handbrake are Beetle, but the shifter and steering wheel are not.
Edit: That picture of the Corb-mobile is from a book that it sounds like I should find through an inter-library loan.
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A competition for a low-cost automobile had just been launched by a consortium of producers, and even though it omitted architects from the roster of invitees, Le Corbusier wanted in. After all, Gropius had done it, and so had Loos, and it’s clear from the tone of this letter that Le Corbusier had an itch he simply had to scratch... Amado beautifully reproduces plates of 78 entries by rivals, many featuring rear engines, earnest attempts at streamlining, a surprisingly agile juggling of features, and, quel scandale, a progressive industrial rather than architectural language.... Le Corbusier, focused on the Modular and the harmony of intersecting lines with no Xenakis in sight, was caught off-guard. Lacking beziers and splines, locked into antideluvian T’s and angles, he found himself far from the shells and airfoils he lauded in Towards a New Architecture. Nevertheless, he soldiered on, eventually producing drawings for a strange, pug-nosed vehicle which would be right at home in Trey Parker’s garage.
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Apparently Gropius and Loos also did 'arch cars'.
2nd edit: The Loos car:
LanciaNews.com - PageContent
That looks right at home in an Unaerodynamic thread.