The Fagus Shoe-Last factory in Alfred, Germany is a seminal building in the history of modern architecture. Designed by Walter Gropius in 1911, this three-story factory was the first large structure to use a steel frame, allowing the facade to be made almost entirely of glass. This revolutionary technique set new standards for industrial construction and is still used in the building of every skyscraper. Fagus traces the history of the building from 1911, when it was designed and built, through the late 1920s, the period of final collaboration between Gropius and factory management. It also emphasizes the Bauhaus idea of industrial culture, in which architecture, interior design, graphic design, and photography were interrelated with the business philosophy of the company. This title contains the results of research in the Fagus factory archives, including original correspondence, blueprints, archival images, and ephemera such as stationery and advertisements. The photo-graphs extensively document the Fagus building from the 1920s through the 1950s.
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The main building of the Fagus shoe factory in Germany provides a focus for Annemarie Jaeggi's Fagus, a discussion of the history of modern architecture, which reveals the factory's innovations and buildings. This follows its construction from 1911 when it was designed and built through the 1920s. While the focus is narrow, the book succeeds in documenting a particular style and architectural legacy, and will be of interest to any art library with a specific architectural focus.
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When Carl Benscheidt (1858-1947) founded the Fagus factory in 1911, he was already a man of fifty-three with an active and successful life behind him. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ironing tools, battered piers, railroad elevation, vertical muntins, railroad side, production hall, turbine factory, first construction phase, factory architecture, junior director, factory photo, precision lathe, rough lasts, artistic urge, street elevation, track scales, industrial architecture, boiler house, drying kilns, preliminary project Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Edmund Lill, World War, Karl Benscheidt, Carl Benscheidt, Walter Gropius, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Eduard Werner, Johannes Molzahn, Peter Behrens, Adolf Meyer, United States, Max Hertwig, Modern Entrepreneurship, Herbert Bayer, Angulus Varus, Deutscher Werkbund, Ernst Neufert, Alma Mahler, Bruno Hans, Der Industriebau, New York, United Shoe Machinery Corporation, Adolf Behne, Deutsches Museum, New Objectivity New!
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When Carl Benscheidt (1858-1947) founded the Fagus factory in 1911, he was already a man of fifty-three with an active and successful life behind him. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ironing tools, battered piers, railroad elevation, vertical muntins, railroad side, production hall, turbine factory, first construction phase, factory architecture, junior director, factory photo, precision lathe, rough lasts, artistic urge, street elevation, track scales, industrial architecture, boiler house, drying kilns, preliminary project Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Edmund Lill, World War, Karl Benscheidt, Carl Benscheidt, Walter Gropius, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Eduard Werner, Johannes Molzahn, Peter Behrens, Adolf Meyer, United States, Max Hertwig, Modern Entrepreneurship, Herbert Bayer, Angulus Varus, Deutscher Werkbund, Ernst Neufert, Alma Mahler, Bruno Hans, Der Industriebau, New York, United Shoe Machinery Corporation, Adolf Behne, Deutsches Museum, New Objectivity New!
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- Theory and Design in the First Machine Age by Reyner Banham in Back Matter
- Walter Gropius (Dover Books on Architecture) by Siegfried Giedion in Back Matter
- The Psychology of Advertising (1908) (Thoemmes Press - Classics in Psychology) (Vol 44) by Walter Dill Scott on page 90
- Walter Gropius by Winfried Nerdinger in Back Matter
- The Art Museum by Karl E. Meyer on page 126
- Modern Architecture Through Case Studies by Peter Blundell Jones in Back Matter
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