Behrens Designs the AEG Turbine Factory
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Arts and Culture Series
- Categories: Arts, Architecture
- Subcategories: Architects, Industry, Manufacturing, Factories, Industrial Revolution, Industrialization
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, German History
- Geographical Location: Berlin
- Date: 1909
Article abstract: An artist’s design for a modern factory building proved that functionalism and creativity could coexist in the architecture of the industrial age.
Summary of Event
The relation between industry and creative design was one of the most troubling problems in European culture at the start of the twentieth century. The huge scale and utilitarian motives of the age’s new structures—steel bridges, railroad sheds, factories—mocked the idea that applying traditional ornament to them would humanize them. Beyond that, the mysterious...
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