[Contemporary Materials and Techniques in Industrial Architecture]
Architects carved paths toward defining the future by defining new forms for ever-changing factories, industrial storage, and transportation facilities. The factory was seen as a building type deserving of architectural treatment in the early 1900s, in order to improve good production, dignify the workplace, and forge corporate identities. The Deutscher Werkbund, which was founded to improve the quality and design of German manufactured goods and was originally based on craft and art, has produced many of Germany’s most influential architects, including Peter Behrens, Walter Gropius, and Mies Van der Rohe. Two influential industrial buildings designed by its members were the AEG Turbine Factory by Peter Behrens and the Fagus Shoe Last Factory by Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer. The monumentality of Behrens’ AEG factory, which had been regarded as a “temple to industrial power”, was based on Neoclassical principles. Gropius and Meyer managed to avoid this masking of structure for the Fagus Factory, instead attempting to clearly express its materials, a key feature of the modern Movement aesthetic. At the Bauhaus, studies were about how to respond to the requirements of an organization. Its influence can still be seen in designers’ responses to mass production of everyday products, despite the fact that it had several phases and its aesthetics approach was not monolithic. Its machine-celebrating spare lines and structural expression are still present in contemporary design discussions.
3.2.3 INDUSTRY AFTER WORLD WAR II – RISE, DECLINE AND CONSEQUENCES Intensively increased industrial investment at the end of World War II sparked the urban growth of industrial centres in the post – century, particularly in the late 1950s and early 1960s. As a result of the increase in business opportunities, the population of cities has grown, resulting in the expansion of housing areas, service areas, roads, and other infrastructural and communal facilities. This expansion, which was primarily focused on undeveloped land on the outskirts of cities, resulted in increased traffic and increased pressure on the road network, which has also been expanding. This period’s architectural aesthetic is still influenced by the modern movement and the international style; there is extensive use of modern materials such as reinforced concrete, iron, and glass, as well as some entirely new ones such as asbestos, later plastic, and so on. Despite the fact that this period produced some outstanding architectural achievements, they have always struggled to be appreciated by the general public. The new materials, they have always struggled to be appreciated by the general public. The new materials, which were ostensibly permanent at the time, have poor resistance to the passage of time. However, the public’s worst enemy remains the indifference, if not outright contempt, that this architecture continues to elicit. This is due, in particular, to the banality of Bachelor of Architecture 2018 – 2023 [Dissertation]
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