Industrial Architecture

Description

• 'Composition is logical', 2 overlapping Ls, 3 wings, residences and shop, bridge connects
• Central range with attachments- varying heights, inset columns supporting floors
• Furniature unified of tubular steel, 'vast cage of light', grid-like

Materials/ methods

• Light fittings- Kraels and Brandt, Breduer using tubular steel, chains and pulleys
• Undisguised materials, whitewashed walls create unity/ flow

Context

• Bauhaus school founded under Gropius in Weimar 1919, moved to Dessau 1925
• 'For the needs of the people, not the need for luxury', haubau- house of bulding
• Gropius: 'the artist...breathes soul into the lifeless production of the machine'
• Clean/ hygenic forms due to Gropius' experiences of trench warfare in WW1
• Gestamkunstwerk- total unity of work

Description

• Cross shaped, single story, excessively glazed- light, drum shaped hall, 8 clerestory windows
• Concrete roof and etablture, blue rubbon and glass tiles, illuminated glass sign
• 2 wide entrance days, street lvel, stepped stairwell, platforms have cantilevered shelter

Materials

• Modern European style- brick, glass, reinforced concrete, geometric shapes
• 2.5 passangers a year, 'planned for a specific purpose', retrained in decoration

Context

• London's most iconic station, commissioned by Electric and Underground Railway Commission of London, one of seven for Holden
• Pick managed, recently reformed London's lettering
• Glancey: 'truely...Gestamkunstwek, a total and entire work of art'

Description

• Large, monumental scale, 207m x 96m, 3 floors, side glazing and projecting window at front
• Rusticated corner butress, rounded edges, seem massive but actually thin
• Arcs to represent classical temple, aimed to glorify power of industry

Material

• Glass and steel with outer columnar frame and glass surface
• Egyptian/ Greek temples- pedimented facade, free from structural restrains, uses machine classicsm by looking at classical order to create space- functional ultisation of space

Context

• AEG bringing Germany industry to international level
• More about unity as a whole rather than orders of architecture, Le Corbusier: 'integral archtectonic creations of our time', artist transforming bruality of machine into dignity