Industrial architecture

Industrial architecture is the architecture of buildings in which place industrial production and manufacturing processes, such as factories and workshops. Since industrialization in the 18th century, these buildings are an important part of the built environment and are subject to changes of architectural styles. However, they are also considered a pioneer of modern architecture. Formative building types are factory buildings, heating or smelting works, winding towers, traffic construction - first the railway, the motor vehicles - and hydraulic structures such as water plants and water towers. For industrial and factory architecture as production include neither the heating and metallurgical plants nor the traffic construction or the waterworks. The latter belong to the infrastructure construction.

History

In the industrial architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries functional needs of technical large-scale plants dominate the architecture. Sometimes, however, also representative aspects play a role. At the same time it forms the landscape and changed the landscape aesthetics.

Outstanding examples of the development in Germany are:

Industrial Culture and the City

Manifold is now the talk of the industry culture, their connection shows in museum exhibitions on roads or a region or an industry with the architectural design. Next was often of a destruction or at least urban sprawl through the establishment of industry talk, ask some companies today claim to be to dominate the skyline of their respective locations positive. The couple cup, is the photographic industry archaeologists because of their work, speak of equality of religious architecture of the Middle Ages and the industrial architecture.

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