Course Name: History of Transportation and Automobile design
Course Code: DE 648
Course Instructor: Prof. Sugandh Malhotra
Course Credits: 6
Course Duration: 3 weeks

OBJECTIVE

• To understand the relevance and importance of history of automobile design.
• To observe the evolution of various design features through detailed study of an automobile brand.
• To observe and learn the importance of contributing factors that lead to evolution of design.
• To learn to identify key visual design elements of an automobile and observe how these design elements have changed with time by doing a comparative study of past and present models.

METHODOLOGY

• Select one of the known automotive brands. Trace back the history of the automotive car and the brand through rigorous literature research.
• Document previous key model launches and details about the designer and key differentiating features of the chosen product.
• Conduct a parallel study and document the key developments in science, automotive technology, political events, art movements, developments in schools of thoughts, social movements, etc. in an elaborate timeline.
• Identify different key features of the specific automobile and derive relationship between their evolution and the contributing factors.
• Trace the key design elements that define a specific automobile vehicle. Observe the evolution in design language through comparing past and present day models.

REFERENCES

• Flink, J. J. (1990). The automobile age. MIT Press.
• Hodges, D., & Wise, D. B. (1974). The Story of the Car. Hamlyn.
• Nixon, John. C. (1956). Antique automobile. London. Cassell.
  Heimann, J., & Patton, P. (2009). 20th Century Classic Cars: 100 Years of Automotive Ads: 100 Jahre Autowerbung: 100 Ans de Publicité Automobile. Taschen.
• Kimes, B. R. (2005). Pioneers, Engineers, and Scoundrels. Training, 2015, 03-24.
• Zumbrunn, M., Cumberford, R., Honer, J., Snow, A., & Wythe, S. (2004). Auto Legends: Classics of Style and Design. Merrell Publishers.
• Zumbrunn, Michel. (2008). Italian auto legends: classics of style and design. London: Merrell Pub.

• Furman, Michael. (2010). American auto legends: classics of style and design. London: Merrell Pub.
• Dominguez, H. (1999). Edsel Ford and E. T. Gregorie: the Remarkable Design Team and Their Classic Fords of the 1930 s and 1940 s. Warrendale, PA: Society of Automotive Engineers, 1999. 354.
• Lewin, Tony. (2011). AZ of 21st century cars. London: Merrell Pub.
• Curcio, Vincent. (2013). Henry Ford. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Sparke, Penny. (2002). Century of car Design. London: Mitchell Beazley.