Factory [[electronic resource] /] / Gillian Darley

• Record Nr.: UNISA996339090003316
• Autore: Darley Gillian
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Reaktion, 2003
• ISBN: 1-282-26389-7; 9786612263897; 1-86189-473-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (226 p.)
• Collana: Objekt series
• Classificazione: 21.71
• Disciplina: 338.65; 338.6509; 725.4
• Soggetti: Factories - History; Factories - Social aspects; Factories - Design and construction; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Factory Structure; Imprint page; Contents; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Gillian Darley traces the history of the modern factory, from the utopian schemes of Robert Owen or 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.