Streamlined modernity

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That of Edmund Rumpler developed Rumpler Tropfenwagen was the first streamlined-designed car.
The Mossehaus by the architect Erich Mendelsohn on Schützenstrasse in Berlin-Mitte was the first building of streamlined modernism.
San Francisco's Maritime Museum
The S1 steam locomotive with streamlined cladding designed by Raymond Loewy

The Streamline Moderne (also streamlining or Streamline Moderne ) identifies the areas of design, architecture and design includes (v. A. Cars, buses, locomotives). Originally, the streamlining was about reducing the flow resistance . Design elements were then adopted in the architecture and product design for aesthetic reasons, where air resistance does not play a role. Streamlined modernism was often combined with the Art Deco style. In Italy, elements of streamlined modernity were combined with the prevailing style of futurism . In architecture, the style emphasized curvy, streamlined shapes, long horizontal lines and sometimes nautical elements such as railings or porthole windows.

The airship builder Johann Schütte is considered to be the inventor of the streamline . Schütte and his company Schütte-Lanz competed with the popular Zeppelin . Around 1908 he designed an airship from an aerodynamic point of view. The Mossehaus in Berlin, designed by the architect Erich Mendelsohn in 1923, is considered to be the first building of streamlined modernism . The style spread worldwide. In the USA, Raymond Loewy is considered to be one of the most important pioneers of the style, which is briefly referred to as streamlining .

In vehicle construction, Hans Ledwinka designed the Tatra 77, the first mass-produced, streamlined vehicle. The Karl Schlör of Westhofen-Dirmstein designed Schlörwagen of 1939 applies with a c w value of 0.15 even today as a milestone of aerodynamics in vehicle. Other important vehicles include a. the Rumpler drop wagon from 1921, the vehicles from Espenlaub vehicles , the K-Wagen (Kamm-Wagen) and the designs by Paul Jaray .

Other representatives of the style in the field of design were Norman Bel Geddes , Henry Dreyfuss and Walter Dorwin Teague .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mark Whiffen, Frederick Koeper: American Architecture 1607 - 1976 , Ars pro toto Verlag, ISBN 978-3-952-3089-4-3 , S. 332nd
  2. ↑ Catharina Berents: Brief History of Design: From Gottfried Semper to Philippe Starck , Beck Verlag, ISBN 978-3-406-62241-0 , p. 132.

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