Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America is an impressive collection of important essays touching on all aspects of Michigan’s architecture and design heritage.
The Great Lakes State has always been known for its contributions to twentieth-century manufacturing, but it’s only beginning to receive wide attention for its contributions to Modern design and architecture. Brian D. Conway, Michigan’s State Historic Preservation Officer, and Amy L. Arnold, project manager for Michigan Modern, have curated nearly thirty essays and interviews from a number of prominent architects, academics, architectural historians, journalists, and designers, including historian Alan Hess, designers Mira Nakashima, Ruth Adler Schnee, and Todd Oldham, and architect Gunnar Birkerts, describing Michigan’s contributions to Modern design in architecture, automobiles, furniture and education.
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- English
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History of ArchitectureTable of contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The Beginnings
- Kahnās Industry
- Pure Design
- Cranbrook Academy of Art
- Modernizing the American Lifestyle
- The Automobile and Design
- The Perfect Storm
- Automobility for All
- Where Today Meets Tomorrow
- Michigan, Modernism, and Suburbia
- The Car and What Came of It
- Modern Design and Home Furnishings
- Grand Rapids Furniture and Mass-Produced Modernism
- Threads
- Alexander Girard
- George Nakashima and the Widdicomb Furniture Company
- Competition, Collaboration, and Connection
- Interview with Ruth Adler Schnee, Textile Designer
- The Knoll Look
- Modernizing Recreation
- Plastic Fantastic
- Interview with Jim Miller-Melberg, Artist
- Michiganās Modern Architecture Legacy
- Alden B. Dow
- A Usonian Michigan
- Eero Saarinen
- A Challenge to the Future
- An Extraordinary Workshop
- Serenity and Delight
- Ralph Rapson
- Interview with Gunnar Birkerts, Architect
- Balthazar Korab
- Michiganās Influence
- Import-Export
- Conversations and Convergences
- Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America Exhibition Retrospective
- Selected Bibliography
- Contributors
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