Basic Forms of Industrial Buildings
Title | Basic Forms of Industrial Buildings PDF eBook |
Author | Bernd Becher |
Publisher | |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Architectural photography |
ISBN |
Bernd & Hilla Becher : basic forms of industrial buildings
Title | Bernd & Hilla Becher : basic forms of industrial buildings PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 143 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783829601504 |
Basic forms
Title | Basic forms PDF eBook |
Author | Bernd Becher |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Architectural photography |
ISBN | 9783829606943 |
"Celebrating Hilla Becher's 80th birthday, we offer again the title Basic Forms presenting the range of industrial buildings documented by the artists."--Publisher website.
Typologies of Industrial Buildings
Title | Typologies of Industrial Buildings PDF eBook |
Author | Bernd Becher |
Publisher | Mit Press |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780262025652 |
An encyclopedic collection of all known Becher industrial studies, arranged by building type.
The Design & Construction of Industrial Buildings
Title | The Design & Construction of Industrial Buildings PDF eBook |
Author | Moritz Kahn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
Form and Fancy
Title | Form and Fancy PDF eBook |
Author | Joan S. Skinner |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780853236122 |
In 1916, at an unpropitious time, Thomas Wallis founded a new practice, Wallis, Gilbert & Partners, primarily to collaborate with an American company in the design of factories to be constructed of reinforced concrete. Up to this time, the designing of factories was not popular among architects and many manufacturers regarded the employment of an architect as a wanton extravagance. Wallis's move could in this light be seen as a reckless gamble, but the subsequent achievements of him and his partners suggest that his choice had been well considered. They became prolific designers of factories and some of the best known inter-war industrial buildings – Firestone, Hoover, The Gramophone Company, Glaxo Laboratories to name only a few – were their work. Skinner looks first at the biographical background of Wallis, at the history and organization of the partnership he founded, and at the many factors that contributed to its reputation in the inter-war years. She then offers a perspective on architectural thought and activity in that period, and of the attitudes and influences on factory design. Designs by the partnership for over one hundred factories and factory buildings have been discovered and, at the core of the book is a third chapter which analyses and assesses them under four headings: the early "daylight/masonry" style; the "fancy" factories of the mid-term years of 1927–35; the more sculptural and geometrical "British modern" later works up to 1939; and designs, including overseas commissions, that do not easily fit within the three style groups. Skinner concludes with an evaluation of the philosophy of Wallis, Gilbert & Partners, which was to contribute through the architectural design of factories to the successful pursuit of business by the companies that commissioned them. Although factories have played an influential role in society for more than two centuries, their design has rarely caught the imagination of architectural historians. Their neglect of the field is now being rectified to some extent and this book will contribute to the further stimulation of interest in the architectural history of factories.
American Industrial Buildings
Title | American Industrial Buildings PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Edward Denari |
Publisher | |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | |
ISBN |