Factory / Gillian Darley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Darley, Gillian.

Series:

Objekt

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Factories--History.

Factories.

Factories--Social aspects.

Factories--Design and construction.

History.

Physical Description:

224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Reaktion, 2003.

Summary:

A social and architectural history of the factory, from 19th-century utopian vision to post-industrial revival today. The first in Reaktion's new "Objekt" series, Factory examines the cultural importance of the factory in its many manifestations: as an icon of the industrial age; as innovator, as innovation and as laboratory, and shows more than 100 intriguing visual examples. Whether discussing the utopian schemes of Robert Owen or Claude Ledoux, the "cathedrals of industry" of Albert Kahn and Frank Lloyd Wright, or the post-industrial revivals of former factories such as Renzo Piano's reconstruction of the Fiat Lingotto factory in Turin, this thematic account sheds a fascinating new light on the cultural connotations of these great modern monoliths.

Contents:

1 Factory as Image 15

2 Factory as Model: Early Versions 40

3 Modern Models 74

4 Factory as Innovator 104

5 Factory as Icon 136

6 Factory as Sales Tool 157

7 Factory as Laboratory or Laboratory as Factory? 190.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1861891555

OCLC:

51964989