Title A Study on the Rationalization of Space and Transformation of Urban Space by Formation of Factories in the Nineteenth Century Europe
Authors Kim Hyoung-Jun ; Jeon Young-Hoon
Page pp.127-136
ISSN 12269093
Keywords Factory ; Modern Institutions ; Space ; Rationality ; Urban Space
Abstract This study is to examine the formation of factories and their influence in the 19th century Europe. The purpose is to understand architecture in the 19th century as the origin of the modern architecture in the 20th century, and to reveal the characters of modern architecture through factories in the 19th century. Factories in the 19th century are one of the leading architectural themes in that age. Having a vast influence on entire Europe, they are new modern institutions emerging with new modern technologies and cultures.
This study analysis factories through 19th century's technologies and cities which are fundamental changed in the 19th century Europe. As a result, factories produced rationality and system on the space, and produced many methods on the cities. That Methods were produced in the process of solving the factories and factory towns' problems which were heterotopian circumstances, and were formed by several practices which were related to utopian viewpoint. The rationality of space and methods of city planning were major influence on the 20th century's architectures and cities. Therefore, the modern institutions in the 19th century will be studied as to reveal the origin of the modern architecture.