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Article: Architecture and the car: as the automobile evolved in tandem with modern architecture, it created myths, legends and new building types.(comment)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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Gabriel Voison (1880-1973) gave up architectural studies to fly, and then to build aircraft for the French air force. After the First World War, Voison turned his hand to car manufacture, and, in partnership with his friend, the architect Noel Noel, planned to build inflatable aircraft hangars and prefabricated housing. Voison did build a sequence of fascinating, and rather expensive, lightweight, aluminium alloy-framed cars over the following fifteen years, although the low-cost aircraft hangars and prefab housing never quite got off the ground, or along the road.
Yet, they very nearly did. Between experimenting and womanising, Voison made friends with the ...