ARC251H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Aeg Turbine Factory, Walter Gropius
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Nov 28th 2016 late 19th century, early 20th. Peter behrens aeg turbine factory: pioneering glass and steel, architecturalizing the factory (typology, architecture devoting itself to commercial representation, modernization, industrialization, moving to mass production and consumption. Factories: utilitarian, functional, behrens wanted to bring factories up to the level of art, called his architecture industrial neoclassicism , to make an arch for aeg is to make an arch for. Germany: he looked at hegel idea of spirit moving through time representing itself through building, repping through a building type of factories industrial era. Walter gropius - fagus factory: first director of the bauhaus, response to behrens, buildings raised to level of art, transparent corners (radical) visual emphasis on glass. Mies van der rohe seagram building: proposed glass skyscrapers. Wants to give appearance to it as asymol of.
