Article: The Works: The Industrial Architecture of the United States.(Book Review)

THE WORKS: The Industrial Architecture of the United States. By BETSY HUNTER BRADLEY. xii and 347 pp.; maps, diagrs., ills., bibliog., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 0195090004.

The modernist architectural movement hailed industrial engineering as a new aesthetic ideal with the presumption that the engineers who designed factories happened upon their austere visions for strictly functional reasons. This survey of American industrial architecture through the 1930s concludes that the engineers who designed factories searched for and attained a distinctive expression of their own craft. Factory engineers designed factory ...

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