Investigations on the Legendary Citroën DS: The Goddess – La DS

Beschreibung

Der Zürcher Lars Müller Verlag hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten einen Namen mit Büchern zu Kunst und Ästhetik gemacht. Passend dazu erscheint im Juli 2020 das englischsprachige Investigations on the Legendary Citroën DS: The Goddess. Wir sind sehr auf das 240-seitige Buch gespannt und müssen uns zur Zeit noch mit der Verlagsankündigung begnügen, die wir Ihnen natürlich nicht vorenthalten möchten:

A celebration of the beloved Citroën DS, icon of screen, street and style, through drawings, photos and ephemera

From the moment of its debut in 1955, the Citroën DS was a sensation and a magnet for movie stars, designers, philosophers and politicians alike. No other automobile was able to combine form and technology so coherently and seemingly effortlessly. Radical in its implementation and revolutionary in terms of comfort and safety, the DS is one of the most innovative design icons of the 20th century.

In collaboration with Lars Müller Publishers, the Swiss architect Christian Sumi published the new edition of AS in DS (Alison Smithson in DS) in 2001. In this new book, he examines the characteristics of this classic vehicle, such as the body, the chassis or the legendary hydraulics, which he documents in carefully arranged picture series and with drawings by Flaminio Bertoni and the Citroën design team. Using image essays from advertising campaigns for the Citroën DS, Sumi critically examines its reception and iconization, along with theories that discuss the phenomenon in both a contemporary and philosophical context.

Aus der Verlgasinformation:

Christian Sumi graduated from the Zurich Polytechnic, where he worked for the Institute of History and Theory of Architecture (gta). He has taught at Harvard University GSD, the Lausanne Polytechnic EPFL and the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. From 2008 to 2016 he had a full professorship at the Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio AAM, together with Marianne Burkhalter. Since 1984, Sumi and Burkhalter have been running an architectural practice in Zurich. The firm acquired an international reputation by, among other things, transformations of existing structures, new housing typologies, hotels and innovative wooden constructions and distinctive use of polychrome colors. Sumi also made a number of exhibition installations: „Gottfried Semper“ and „Robots“ for the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich (2004 and 2009); „The unexpected view“ and „Konrad Wachsmann – the Grapevine Structure“ for La Biennale di Venice (2014 and 2018). He is the editor of the reprint of Alison and Peter Smithson’s publication “AS in DS,” published by Lars Müller Publishers (2001).