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Alec Issigonis:
The Man who Made the Mini
Jonathan Wood
Alec Issigonis, the brilliant British designer of
the Morris Minor and the Mini, is one of the commanding
figures in the history of automobile design and engineering.
His ingenious and effective designs had a deep, lasting
influence on the evolution of the motor car and on
the wider history of industrial design, and he deserves
to be ranked with the other giants of the field like
Ferdinand Porsche in Germany and Dante Giacosa in
Italy. But, until now, Issigonis’s career as
an engineer and designer, and his strong, single-minded
character, have never been the subject of a full-length
biography.
Jonathan Wood’s meticulously researched, penetrating
study of this flawed genius of automobile design offers
a rounded portrait of his life and work, and places
him squarely in the context of his times. Vivid recollections
of Issigonis’s contemporaries, combined with
a critical reassessment of his output, create a balanced
view of a remarkable, controversial man. The author
also offers a behind-the-scenes impression of the
personal and corporate struggles within the declining
British car industry, a complex process in which Issigonis
played a famous role.
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