Title & Author:

Space of production : projects and essays on rationality, atmosphere, and expression in the industrial building / edited by Jeannette Kuo ; Atelier Kuo et École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Publication:

Zurich : Park Books, [2015]

Description:

157 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), plans ; 29 cm

Notes:
Texts for "15 Projects," "Urban Factory," and "Constructing Logics" by Jeannette Kuo.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-154).
Introduction / Jeannette Kuo -- Projects. 1. Menier Chocolate Mill, Jules Saulnier ; 2. AEG Turbine Factory, Peter Behrens ; 3. Packard Motor Co. Forge Shop, Albert Kahn ; 4. Grain Storage of the Swiss Confederation, Robert Maillart ; 5. Pirelli & Co. Cable Factory, Robert Maillart ; 6. Les Ateliers Esders, Auguste Perret ; 7. Les Ateliers Voirin-Marinoni, Auguste Perret ; 8. Steinberg Hat Factory, Erich Mendelsohn ; 9. Mame Printing Works, Drieu la Rochelle, Bernard Zehrfuss, and Jean Prouvé ; 10. Gatti Wool Factory, Pier Luigi Nervi ; 11. Bank of England Printing Works, Easton& Robertson ; 12. High Life Textile Factory, Félix Candela ; 13. Center for Hydrographic Studies, Miguel Fisac ; 14. Iron Foundry, Curt Siegel and Rudolf Wonneberg ; 15. Olivetti-Underwood Factory, Louis Kahn -- Architecture vs. Program / Cédric Libert -- “Structural Art” in Nervi & Bartoli’s Industrial Architecture (1949-1971) / Alberto Bologna -- Urban Factory: Atelier Kuo EPFL, Spring 2014 -- In Conversation with Jacques Herzog of Herzog & de Meuron -- Constructing Space / Jeannette Kuo -- Constructing Logics: Atelier Kuo EPFL, Fall 2012 and 2013 -- Architecture Space, Structural Hollowness / Juan José Castellón -- In Conversation with Frank Barkow of Barkow Leibinger Architects.

Summary:

"Unhindered by tradition and often out of the purview of public scrutiny, industrial buildings have been fertile sites for architectural experiments following the Industrial Revolution. Driven foremost by pragmatic ambition, it is a typology that generated some of the purest results of integrated design, uniting engineering, expression, and performance in the articulation of constructed space. This new book investigates spaces of production through seminal projects by engineer-architects such as Robert Maillart, Albert Kahn, Auguste Perret, Pier Luigi Nervi, and many others. The result of research done at tthe École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne's School of Architecture, it also includes interviews, essays, and student works"--Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9783906027883 (pbk.)
3906027880 (pbk.)

Subject:

Industrial buildings Design and construction Case studies.
Industrial buildings Design and construction Philosophy.
Industrial buildings Designs and plans.
Architecture, Industrial History Pictorial works.
Architects Interviews.
Constructions industrielles Conception et construction Études de cas.
Constructions industrielles Conception et construction Philosophie.
Constructions industrielles Dessins et plans.
Architecture industrielle Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
Architectes Entretiens.
Architects
Architecture, Industrial
Industrial buildings
Industrial buildings Design and construction

Form/genre:

Interviews.
interviews.
Architectural drawings
Case studies
History
Pictorial works
Études de cas.

Added entries:

Kuo, Jeannette. 15 projects.
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. Atelier Kuo.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291508
Call No.: BIB 235195
Status: Available