A305/04: Industrial Architecture: AEG and Fagus Factories

In the context of the exhibition The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture, the CCA presents twenty-four broadcasts from the course A305, History of Architecture and Design 1890-1939, by The Open University. To learn more about the project, visit www.cca.qc.ca/....
In television broadcast 4, Tim Benton compares the industrial buildings by Peter Behrens for the AEG
(General Electrical Company of Germany) in Berlin with the almost exactly contemporaneous Fagus shoe-last factory which Walter Gropius designed for Karl Benscheidt, in Alfeld-an-der-Leine, both built just before the First World War. […] The Fagus factory is often referred to as the first really ‘modern’ building, while the AEG buildings, at first sight, appear to have a markedly classical aesthetic.
Written by Tim Benton, directed by Nick Levinson, produced the BBC/Open University, aired 15 March 1975 on BBC2.

[@thobraa]

Awesome program. Dig the coolness of the presenter as well. Gold!

[@robertstaas9314]

More of these programmes please!

[@andersonarmstrong2650]

The BBC 2 Open University programming was fantastic. I watched these as a child growing up.

[@omanuelsa]

this is a bar of gold! thank you so much

[@tobiaskuhl7237]

So very well explained! I'm writing an essay about these two buildings and this helps me so much!

[@hedon01]

Fantastic! So glad you posted this... So glad I "found" it!

[@j.d.4697]

It's creepy how much I love industrial architecture. I even want to live there.

[@SebaQuiros]

Thank you!

[@brokensync]

Absolutely superb thanks

[@ar.vipulzulkanthiwar1539]

Fantastic Architecture ❤️

[@ethancantes-freeman2563]

fantastic stuff old chap