Factory / Gillian Darley.

Main entry:

Darley, Gillian.

Title & Author:

Factory / Gillian Darley.

Publication:

London : Reaktion, 2003.

Description:

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

Series:

Objekt series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Factory as Image -- 2. Factory as Model: Early Versions -- 3. Modern Models -- 4. Factory as Innovator -- 5. Factory as Icon -- 6. Factory as Sales Tool -- 7. Factory as Laboratory or Laboratory as Factory? -- References -- Select Bibliography -- Photographic Acknowledgements -- Index.

Summary:

"This book examines the factory in a number of incarnations: as image, as icon, as innovator and as laboratory. It traces the history of the modern factory from the utopian schemes of Robert Owen and Claude Ledoux in the early 19th century, through the great modernist 'cathedrals of industry' of Peter Behrens, Albert Kahn and Frank Lloyd Wright, to the post-industrial revival of former factories, such as Renzo Piano's reconstruction of the Fiat Lingotto factory in Turin, or the landscaped industrial parks created out of former steel mills in the Ruhr area of Germany."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1861891555 (pbk.)
9781861891556 (pbk.)

Subject:

Factories History.
Factories Social aspects.
Factories Design and construction.
Usines Histoire.
Usines Aspect social.
Usines Conception et construction.
Factories
Fabrieksgebouwen.
Fabrik Geschichte 0 Gesamtdarstellung

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Added entries:

Objekt.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 229424
Call No.: NA6400 .D3 2003
Status: Available

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