ARTH 2510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Great Exhibition, Doric Order, Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
12 Apr 2017
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The rise of capitalism on a grand scale. Not one penny wasted on things that are not essential. Designed purely for work purely functional. The interiors as well were not pleasant: no limits on length of work day, no notion of work play safety, child labor was also a continuing problem at these locations. The structure of these factories is cheap and simple. Iron begins to be used as an affordable material. Most space covered with minimum amount of work smooth simple rectangles. Cheap and versatile the future of building, predicted. The systematic construction allowed for endless numbers of producing the same thing. There are minimal decorative qualities; the overall effect is very different than any other materials being looked at. We begin to see a more dramatic overlap between architecture and engineering. If you want to build in iron, you need to understand the building material to design it appropriately; architects and engineers were made essential to each other.
