2. PROFILE
BORN - 14 APRIL, 1868 IN
HAMBURG
DIED - FEB 27,1940 IN BERLIN
EDUCATION - STUDIED
PAINTING AT THE SCHOOL OF
ART IN KARLSRUHE (1886-
1889)
3. FROM 1890 WORKED AS A PAINTER AND GRAPHIC ARTIST
IN MUNICH
1893 – WAS THE FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE MUNICH
SECESSION
1899 – JOINED ARTISTS COLONY ON THE MATHILDENHOHE
IN DARMSTADT
1903 – BECAME DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL OF APPLIED
ARTS IN DUSSELDORF
1907 – BECAME ARCHITECT AND DESIGNER FOR GERMAN
ELECTRICAL COMPANY AEG IN BERLIN
1922 – BECAME THE DIRECTOR OF SCHOOL OF
ARCHITECTURE IN VIENNA ACADEMY OF ARTS
1936 – BECAME THE HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF
ARCHTECTURE AT THE PRUSSIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS,
BERLIN
TIME LINE
4. STYLE
EARLY GRAPHIC WORK WAS HEAVILY INFLUENCED
BY ART NOUVEAU
FROM 1907 HIS WORK BECAME MORE NEO-
CLASSICAL
LATER HE DESIGNED BUILDINGS WITH MODERNIST
CHARACTERISTICS
5. ART NOUVEAU
IT IS AN INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT
AND STYLE OF ART, ARCHITECTURE
AND APPLIED ARTS CHARACTERIZED
BY ORGANIC, ESPECIALLY FLORAL
AND OTHER PLANT INSPIRED
MOTIFFS, AS WELL AS HIGHLY
STYLIZED, FLOWING CURVILLINEAR
FORMS.
6. LIST OF WORKS
YEAR BUILDING
1890 HAUS BEHRENS, DARMSTADT
1908-09 AEG TURBINE HALL, BERLIN
1911-12 GERMAN EMBASSY IN ST.
PETERSBERG
1920-25 IG FARBEN HOCHST
HEADQUARTERS IN FRNKFURT
1926 NEW WAYS, PRIVATE DWELLING IN
NORTHAMPTON
12. DESIGNED IN COLLABORATION
WITH ENGINEER KARL BERNHARD
WAS STARTEGICALLY PLACED
ON SOUTHERN EDGE OF
FACTORY COMPLEX, FACING
BERLIN AND THE WORLD AS A
SHOW FRONT OF THE
PROSPEROUS INDUSTRIAL
MAGNATE
MAGNIFICENT IRON AND
GALSS HYBRID OF TWO
EMINENTLY CLASSICAL TEMPLE
TRADITIONS – THE GREAK AND
THE EGYPTIAN
BEHRENS BELIEVED THAT
UNDER THE ARTISTIC WILL OF
THE DESIGNER, THE FACTORY
COULD BE TRANSFORMED INTO
AN ENTITY OF HIGH CULTURE
13. CONFLICT BETWEEN
TECTONIC CHARACTER OF
FERRO-VITREOUS WIDE SPAN
OFFERED BY ENGINEER AND
BEHRENS ADHERENCE TO THE
CONCEPT OF STEREOTOMIE
STRUCTURAL MAKE UP OF
FACTORY CONSISTED OF AN
ASYMMETRICAL THREE-HINGED
ARCH RE-INFORCED BY A TIE
BEAM
THE LONGER HALF OF THE
ARCH SPRINGS VERTICALLY UP
TO THE SECOND HINGE AND
THEN BREAKS IN THREE FACETS
BEFORE REACHING THE THIRD
HINGE AT THE APEX OF THE
ARCH
WILLFULL INTERFERENCE BY
BEHRENS INTO THE ENGINEERS
16. CONCEALMENT OF THE FACT THAT ACTUAL ARCHITECTURAL
SYSTEM CONSISTED OF SERIES OF HINGED ARCHES BY
CAPPING THE BUILDING WITH A VOLUMINOUS CORNICE
CUTTING THE ARCH AT THE TOP OF ITS VERTICAL MEMBER
VISUAL IMPRESSION OF TRABEATED SYSTEM IN WHICH
VERTICAL MEMBERS OF ARCH REPRESENTED THE COLUMNS
OF A CLASSICAL TEMPLE
17. INWARDLY INCLINED GLAZING BETWEEN
THE STRUCTURAL MEMBERS OF THE SIDE
ELEVATION ENFORCE THE IDEA OF A
STEREOTOMIC VOLUME