0262023881. Like new hardcover. In like new dust jacket. A clear mylar cover

0262023881. Like new hardcover. In like new dust jacket. A clear mylar cover has been added to protect the covers. Over two hundred plates of the frontal elevations of factory buildings. Additional charges for extra shipping cost may apply.; Black and white photographs; Oversize; 273 pages; "Bernd and Hilla Becher have vastly influenced the international photography world within the past decades. Their unique genre of photography has to be classified between topological documentation and art, lining up with the aesthetics of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement of the 1920s with Karl Blossfeldt, August Sander and Albert Renger-Patzsch. The more than two-hundred duotone plates in. Industrial Facades continue the famous Dusseldorf photographers' formal investigation of industrial structures, in this case the frontal elevation of factory buildings. Industrial Facades covers the whole range of periods and designs representing this building type: from austere brick buildings of the early industrial age and the arched windows and turrets decorating historic facades to the concrete glass functionalist constructions of the 1950s and 1960s, to today's rectangular, windowless halls. These photographs give the lie to Louis Sullivan's often misunderstood motto "form follows function" for the external appearances of the factory buildings shown here are hardly determined by their internal working processes. For this reason, the Bechers's photographs do not really illustrate the development of modern industrial architecture, nor the achievements of functionalist buildings, but rather the achievements of seemingly banal, everyday architecture, produced by builders trained in crafts or by engineers trained in the necessities of the industrial process." The more than two-hundred duotone plates in...Industrial Facades continue the famous Dusseldorf photographers' formal investigation of industrial structures, in this case the frontal elevation of factory buildings....Industrial Facades covers the whole range of periods and designs representing this building type: from austere brick buildings of the early industrial age and the arched windows and turrets..."