http://criticaldetroit.org/aia-debates-detroit-design-parallels/ engaging local architecture Sun, 13 May 2012 22:57:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://criticaldetroit.org/aia-debates-detroit-design-parallels/comment-page-1/#comment-558 Steve Mon, 18 May 2009 17:14:59 +0000 http://criticaldetroit.org/blog2/?p=22#comment-558 I updated the original article link - I didn't realize it changed. The following quote near the end of the second paragraph "...many of the architects on the COD tour remained skeptical that automotive design represented anything more than clever marketing or packaging, or, as some said, drawing pretty lines, certainly nothing as probing as good architecture." really upset me. I agree with you completely that there are many design parallels, but many members of the committee failed to see them. I updated the original article link – I didn’t realize it changed. The following quote near the end of the second paragraph “…many of the architects on the COD tour remained skeptical that automotive design represented anything more than clever marketing or packaging, or, as some said, drawing pretty lines, certainly nothing as probing as good architecture.” really upset me. I agree with you completely that there are many design parallels, but many members of the committee failed to see them.

]]> http://criticaldetroit.org/aia-debates-detroit-design-parallels/comment-page-1/#comment-557 lynette bremer Mon, 18 May 2009 16:39:43 +0000 http://criticaldetroit.org/blog2/?p=22#comment-557 I am not clear as to why the author does not see the connections between automotive design and architecture and furniture or fashion for that matter. ALL designers regardless of their product use very similar concept and production process. harley earl and his father used clay sculpture to design automobiles before engineers planned the mechanics. harley earl and the styling division at GM originated the aesthetic component for auto design and were the first in the auto industry to recognize the marketing possibilities of beauty, as form and function. Originally called the 'art and color' division its main focus was to make sure the new cars not only functioned but were moving works of art, that owners and collectors world wide would appreciate. architecture and auto design have EVERYTHING in common. aesthetic form and function follows many disciplines. fashion design is often architectural and always has to be functional for the human form. materials and fibers and color and style key as well to fashion. Detroit has a grand and glorious history of "getting it" and the gm research center designed by eero saarinen is one the the better examples of collaboration of the arts and engineering of the 20th century. in fact not since the medici in the renaissance was there such a clear sense of what power and production and resources can do to promote a culture in which aesthetics is paramount. excellence in design works in many mediums. the particular comparisons can be drawn out in a myriad of ways, but nature generates art and art generates creative design. detroit gets it, not sure why the author does not..... I am not clear as to why the author does not see the connections between automotive design and architecture and furniture or fashion for that matter. ALL designers regardless of their product use very similar concept and production process. harley earl and his father used clay sculpture to design automobiles before engineers planned the mechanics.
harley earl and the styling division at GM originated the aesthetic component for auto design and were the first in the auto industry to recognize the marketing possibilities of
beauty, as form and function. Originally called the ‘art and color’ division its main focus was to make sure the new cars not only functioned but were moving works of art, that owners and collectors world wide would appreciate. architecture and auto design have
EVERYTHING in common. aesthetic form and function follows many disciplines. fashion design is often architectural and always has to be functional for the human form.
materials and fibers and color and style key as well to fashion. Detroit has a grand and glorious history of “getting it” and the gm research center designed by eero saarinen
is one the the better examples of collaboration of the arts and engineering of the 20th century. in fact not since the medici in the renaissance was there such a clear sense of
what power and production and resources can do to promote a culture in which aesthetics is paramount. excellence in design works in many mediums. the particular comparisons can be drawn out in a myriad of ways, but nature generates art and art generates creative design. detroit gets it, not sure why the author does not…..

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