Open AccessWar, America, and Modernity: Anscombe's revival of the Combination Factory
Author(s) -
Christine McCarthy
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
aha
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2703-6626
DOI - 10.26686/aha.v5i0.6767
Subject(s) - exhibition , factory (object oriented programming) , centennial , modernity , world war ii , first world war , league , architecture , relation (database) , art history , management , economic history , history , engineering , art , political science , visual arts , law , ancient history , archaeology , computer science , economics , programming language , physics , astronomy , database
Following the success of the design of the 1939-40 Centennial Exhibition, Edmund Anscombe began investigating factory architecture. This interest - which had entertained him since before his 1919 publication Modern Industrial Development - characterised the last eight years of his life, apparent in his office's factory designs for: Samuel Brown Ltd (1940,1943), the Disabled Soldiers' Vocational Centre/Rehabilitation League (1942-43), Die Castings Ltd, Lower Hutt (1943) and the WH Symmington & Co.'s factory, Palmerston North (1948). This paper examines this work in relation to his visit to America in 1940 and his proposal for a combined factory on Aotea Quay (1943).