PETER BEHRENS • School of Applied Arts: Director 1903 - • Monumental • Gave more character to the previous

Background Information 1907 • Formal industrial revolution architecture

• BORN: April 14, 1868 in Hamburg, • AEG : Consultant, Architect, Designer Suspension Bridge, Cologne, Germany • Adapted the materials from current times
Germany 1907 1917 and got elements from the period where
• Married to: Lily Kramer since 1890 • Affiliations • Stripped to its simplest form he was born
• Studied painting in: Hamburg, Düsseldorf • Committee for German Industrial • Industrial • Paved a way for a new architecture
and Karlsruhe Standards: Member 1917 • Remained true to it’s character • Founder of Modern Industrial Architecture
• Died of Heart attack on: February 27, 1940 • Department of Architecture at the Mannesmann Tube Company Administrative
in Berlin, Germany Prussian Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin: Headquarters
• Nationality: German Head 1922 Dusseldorf, Germany
In Context to History • Academy of Vienna : Professor 1922 1911
• New Industrial Revolution Period (18th Education Continental Rubber Company Office Building,
Century until the end ofWorld War I) • studied painting at the Karlsruhe School of Hannover, Germany
• World War I(1914-1918) Art 1912-1920
• Post- Renaissance Period / Neo • Düsseldorf under Ferdinand Brütt. Exhibition Building, Bern, Switzerland
Classicism (Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts • Self-Taught Architect 1916
movement ARCHITECTURAL WORKS Cigar Factory, Oldenburg, Germany
20th Century Architecture ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER OF BEHRENS’ 1905
• Stylistic Variety WORKS: Gas Works, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• Broad - Influenced by Art Nouveau / Neo 1912
• Confusing Classicism / Post - Renaissance Farbwerke Hoest, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• Modern Movement - Both expressive and functional 1920-1925
International Classicism - Industrial NON ARCHITECTURAL WORKS
• Classical Doctrines - Geometric - Geometric Peter Behrens
• Classical Style Examples - Influenced by Art Nouveau and Arts and
• Traditional Behrens House Crafts Movement
• Regular in Plan Darmstadt,Germany - Includes, AEG Logo
Otto Wagner’s Book of 1896 1900 - Pottery
• No universal style • Art Nouveau in style - Painting
• Design appropriate to function, habits, • Has organic curves - Literary Works
emotions of modern living • Flame like lines • Industrial, Furniture, Silver and Flatware
• Avoid mismatches of plan and façade or • But is less elaborate, and more simplified Designs
elevation AEG High Voltage Plant, Berlin, Germany Philosophy
Titles 1908-1909 • “ Design is not about decorating functional
• Founder of modern objective industrial • Another of Behrens’ works for AEG forms - it is about creating forms that
architecture and modern industrial design • Monumental accord with the character of the object and
• Founder of modern objective industrial • Industrial that show new technologies to advantage”
architecture AEG Turbine Factory, Berlin, Germany – Peter Behrens [5]
• Father of German industrial design 1910-1913 • Behrens envisioned a beautification of
• Founder of corporate identity. • use of exposed steel, concrete, and large machine made material / objects. This was AEG Turbine Factory
• world’s first industrial designer areas of glass (Gale, 2005). inspired from the electric kettle. [ 1]
Affiliations • reflected an expressive but industrial feel Vision
• Unknown: painter, illustrator, book-binder to it • Economic power through advancements in Handout Prepared by: Manimbo, Dana Grace A.
• Munich Secession: Co founder 1893 • It was romantic but at the same time it industry and technology 3AR-01
• United Workshops: Co founder 1897 accepted mass production,(Fletcher, 1996) • Architecture as a path to success August 2011
• Darmstadt Artist’s Colony: Member 1899 which seems ironic. Conclusion: PETER BEHRENS
• Dignified workplace