History of Architecture and Design - Season 1 Episode 4 Industrial architecture : AEG and FAGUS factories
In television broadcast 4, Tim Benton compares the industrial buildings by Peter Behrens for the AEG (General Electrical Company of Germany) in Berlin with the almost exactly contemporaneous Fagus shoe-last factory which Walter Gropius designed for Karl Benscheidt, in Alfeld-an-der-Leine, both built just before the First World War. […] The Fagus factory is often referred to as the first really ‘modern’ building, while the AEG buildings, at first sight, appear to have a markedly classical aesthetic.
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An architect at work : Fletcher's Well Ponteland
Universal International Exhibition : Paris 1900
Charles Rennie Mackintosh : Hill House
Industrial architecture : AEG and FAGUS factories
Frank Lloyd Wright : the Robie House
R. M. Schindler : The Lovell Beach House
Erich Mendelsohn : the Einstein Tower
Bauhaus at Weimar 1919-1925
Berlin Siedlungen
The Weissenhof Siedlung 1927
International Exhibition of Decorative Arts, Paris 1925
Adolf Loos
Le Corbusier : the Villa Savoye
English flats of the thirties
English houses of the Thirties
Hans Scharoun
English furniture : technique and design
Wood or metal : English furniture of the thirties
The London Underground
Moderne and modernistic
The other tradition
Mechanical services in the cinema
The semi-detached house : the suburban style
The housing question
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