9780262023887
Industrial Facades
Bernd Becher; Hilla Becher; Hilla Becker
ISBN 13: 9780262023887
Publisher: Mit Pr
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Hardcover
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The more than two hundred striking duotone plates in Hilla and Bernd Becher's Industrial Facades continue the famousDısseldorf photographers' formal investigation of industrial structures, in this case the frontal elevations of factory buildings. Like the Bechers' earlier books on water towers, blast furnaces, and gas tanks, Industrial Facades once again clearly displays their serenely cool, rigorous approach to the structures they photograph as vaariations on an ideal form. The Bechers make no attempt to analyze or explain their subjects. Captions contain only the barest of information: time and place. Industrial Facades covers the whole range of periods and designs representing this building type: from austere brick buildings of the early industrial age and the arched windows and turrets decorating historicist facades, to the concrete and glass functionalist constructions of the 1950s and 1960s, to today's rectangular, windowless halls. These photographs give the lie to Louis Sullivan's often misunderstood motto, "form follows function," for the external appearance of the factory buildings shown here are hardly determined by their internal working processes. For this reason, the Bechers' photographs do not really illustrate the development of modern industrial architecture, nor the achievements of functionalist building, but rather the achievements of banal, everyday architecture, produced by builders trained in crafts or by engineers trained in the necessities of the industrial process. * Not for sale in France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, and Austria
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Book Description: MIT Press, 1995. Book Condition: Fine. First edition. Industrial FaÁades is a study of the spaces of production, many of which possess architectural elements that belie their function. The Bechers present these characteristically cold, hard, linear structures throughout Europe and the United States with a distant uniformity, inviting the reader to notice subtle differences and similarities in the often unnoticed, industrially engineered spaces that dictated the economic status of people and places throughout the 20th century. This impeccably composed volume occupies an important space in the history of photography, with a tradition dating back to the German New Objectivity movement. Bookseller Inventory # 503 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Book Description: MIT Press, Cambridge, 1995. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Excellent. Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent. First Edition. Introduction by Klaus Bussmann. 264 pages. Oversized. "The more than two-hundred duotone plates in .Industrial Facades continue the famous Dusseldorf photographers' formal investigation of industrial structures, in this case the frontal elevation of factory buildings. . Industrial Facades covers the whole range of periods and designs representing this building type: from austere brick buildings of the early industrial age and the arched windows and turrets decorating historicist facades to the concrete glass funcionalist constructions of the 1950s and 1960s, to today's rectangular, windowless halls. These photographs give the lie to Louis Sullivan's often misunderstood motto "form follows function" for the external appearances of the factory buildings shown here are hardly determined by their internal working processes. For this reason, the Bechers's photographs do not really illustrate the development of modern industrial architecture, nor the achievements of funcionalist buildings, but rather the achievements of seemingly banal, everyday architecture, produced by builders trained in crafts or by engineers trained in the necessities of the industrial process." Navy blue cloth covered boards, pristine. Mylar protected dustjacket intact, bright. Book unmarked and firm in its binding. Bookseller Inventory # 002271 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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