From the Rust Belt to Silicon Valley, the intersection between architecture and industry has provided a rich and evolving source for historians of architecture. In a historical context, industrial architecture evokes the smoking factories of the nineteenth century or Fordist production complexes of the twentieth century. This book documents the changing nature of industrial building and planning from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Drawing on research from the United States, Europe and Australia, this collection of essays highlights key moments in industrial architecture and planning representative of the wider paradigms in the field. Areas of analysis include industrial production, factories, hydroelectricity, aerospace, logistics, finance, scientific research and mining. The selected case studies serve to highlight architectural and planning innovations in industry and their contributions to wider cultural and societal currents. This richly illustrated collection will be of interest for a wide range of built environment studies, incorporating findings from both historical and theoretical scholarship and design research.
Contents: Industrial architecture, past and present, Mathew Aitchison; Post-industrial spaces of production: the new Brooklyn economy and the Deutsche Werkbund, Erik Ghenoiu; The industrial pastoral in the Tennessee Valley Authority, Laura Sivert; Secret spaces: Southern California's aerospace 'think factories', Stuart Leslie; Walmart and the architecture of logistics, Jesse LeCavalier; Laboratories of experimental science, Sandra Kaji-O'Grady; Offshore city: the regulatory space of finance and the City of London, Amy Thomas; The experience of Australian mining: building, planning, and urbanization, Mathew Aitchison; Index.
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