Showing posts with label assembly line. Show all posts
Showing posts with label assembly line. Show all posts

Friday, 17 January 2014

Frank Lloyd Wright


Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the most important architecture of the twentieth century. He specialised in architect and interior. Wright work was always defined to the last detail even if it is something small. He designed more than a 1000 structure and completed 532 works. He use to continue with the interior and he combine the design with its surroundings and environment. This type of designing was called the Organic Design. He always kept with the geometric forms. Frank build a lot of different types of architect like schools, homes, offices, churches and more. The most famous architect is the Falling Water, it is called this way because it is build on a river. It was build in 1935 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania.

In his 72 year career he came up with a lot of different ideas and of his own. In every designer there is an inspiration somewhere, but Wright rarely had any influences on his designs, but most architects, historians and scholars agree he had five major influences. First was Louis Sullivan know as the father of skyscraper. Also another influence was the nature, Music, Japanese art. A strange influence was the froebel gifts they are just wooden blocks used as toys.

Frank believed that America should have its own architecture and that is not be influenced by European styles. He wanted his country to be different from others.

"Mostly of his designs requires the same style it depends on the position, but the homes mostly have horizontal lines on the exterior, a low hipped roof, long bands of windows, wide overhanging eaves and brick courses of wood bands. On the other hand for the interior it will be an open plan with a central fireplace. Ornamentation is often restricted to art glass windows that function as light blurring. "

Referencing for description of the materials - (Bernard Polster, Claudia Neumann, Markus Schuler  and Fredrick Leven, 2004. The AZ of Modern design



                                                          The FallingWater



For us that we live in the 21st century is something normally that we see a building build this way but in 1935 it was something out of his world. Not only this building amazed this people but a lot others that his designs are still used today for modern homes. This is the well known for Wright architecture, he designed it by using geometric shapes and basic uses. It is called this way because it sits on top a river. The outside not only the architecture but also the pattern and colours match the nature surroundings. The interior is a one piece with the outside it is basically the same shape and design.









Reference:Bernard Polster, Claudia Neumann, Markus Schuler  and Fredrick Leven, 2004. The AZ of Modern design

Tuesday, 15 October 2013

Henry Ford and the model T.



Henry Ford was the owner of the motor company Ford that still manufacture cars today. In 1891 he started working as an engineer, after two years working he became chief head of engineering. At that period he had enough money and time to experiment on gasoline engines. By experimenting he introduced his first car the Ford Quadricycle.  By time he improved his invention to a better automobile and he named it the Model T. In that time the industrial production heads in and Ford began on Mass production on his car.



Ford Quadricycle

Henry ford had his own factory and by building such a big object and he needed to make it multiple times he was one of the first of the mass production. He needed many men working for him so he also made an assembly line where each worker had his own job. By this process the car can be build in a very short time. The model T made a huge hit for a number of years, it was one of the best cars and almost shipped all over the world.


 


As the years go by the model T remained the same and customers wanted something different, like a new design or colour. Ford began to make new colours and with more attractive deign to catch the customer attraction. Every design cannot remain the same because the people will get sick of the same thing. As for the designers is a challenge to introduce a new model with a better shape and colours.



 Model T car



Another designer that got in the industrial revolution is Michael Thonet, he experimented in bending wood and he brought a new style mostly in chairs. The most popular is the model No. 14. Thonet also had an assembly line that each worker does his own job. The most design that be mass-produced is the model No 14 that was sold around 7,300,000 times.


                                                               No 14 chair


As for mass production in industries need to have an assembly line nowadays we leave the hard and delicate work for the machines and the easy and for the hand made the workers get involved.






Reference:
 Charlotte and Peter Fiell, Taschen (1999) Design of the 20th century.