Main entry:

Bradley, Betsy H.

Title & Author:

The works : the industrial architecture of the United States / Betsy Hunter Bradley.

Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Description:

xii, 347 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-327) and index.
PART I: THE AMERICAN MANUFACTURING WORKS: The notion of the works -- Architectural components of the works -- Layouts of the works -- PART II: ENGINEERED FACTORIES: Powered for profit -- Engineering considerations -- Materials of construction -- Factory walls -- Factory roofs -- PART III: THE AESTHETICS OF INDUSTRIAL ARCHITECTURE: A reconciliation of aesthetic traditions -- Factories as architecture.
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Summary:

"In this study, Betsy Hunter Bradley sets forth the terms of the type of analysis that industrial architecture demands. She explores the rationale behind the pragmatic design and functional beauty of American factory buildings and "the works" complexes in which they often stand. While tracing the important developments in industrial architecture over a one-hundred-year period, she demonstrates that as the United States became an industrialized nation, the goals pursued in industrial architecture remained straightforward and constant even as the means to achieve them changed." "Generously illustrated with historic views, The Works will be a valuable resource for historians, architects, and historic preservationists, as well as for anyone interested in industrial architecture generally."--Jacket.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0195090004 (alk. paper)
9780195090000 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture, Industrial United States.
Architecture industrielle États-Unis.
Architecture, Industrial
Geschichte
Industriebau
Industriële bouwkunst.
Industriële archeologie.
United States
USA

Holdings:

Location: Library main 201616
Call No.: NA6402 .B7 1999
Status: Available