Open AccessDecorative Systems of Industrial Buildings: a foray into uncharted regions
Author(s) -
Axel Föhl
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
cuaderno de notas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2386-8376
pISSN - 1138-1590
DOI - 10.20868/cn.2016.3489
Subject(s) - reprint , haven , architecture , architectural engineering , relation (database) , industrialisation , interpretation (philosophy) , the arts , visual arts , civil engineering , engineering , art , political science , computer science , law , physics , mathematics , combinatorics , astronomy , database , programming language
This article is a reprint of the original published in the journal Ezelsoren, Bulletin of the Institute of History of Art, Architecture and Urbanism (IHAAU) of the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). It appeared in Volume III, Number 3, 2012 and is, as indicated in the text, a sample of how far "the very extensive number of buildings constructed since the beginning of industrialization in relation to many technical purposes, from railway stations to slaughterhouses, from power plants to coal mines, haven´t been sufficiently studied in relation to their ornamental and sculptural systems, which in turn represent the reaction of the arts to the course of technological development.” An artistic material still largely unexplored whose wealth is waiting to be unveiled as an eloquent field of interpretation of the past.