AEG Tubine Factory, (Berlin, Germany); 1909; De Stijl, the Avant-Garde in Modern Europe and the Emergence of the Modern Movement
AEG Turbine factory is located in the Moabit district in Berlin, Germany. Built in 1909; and designed by Peter Behrens in the Art Nouveau style. Peter Behren was a painter who was commissioned by AEG to first redesign the arc lamps. His success was so impressive to AEG as he did not completely redesign the lamp its self as merely improve its current design with less joints and fewer complexities to get a simpler and more effective design. Immediately following that they gave him the task of designing the AEG trademark, and later they assigned him to design what would be his first factory for AEG. The AEG turbine factory is now a staple of early modern architecture as it uses new materials and methods that were unconventional to that time. The AEG factory was not the first in Germany to use steel or steel frame construction it was the way they incorporated these materials to express basic classical values. The steel frame is hidden by bricks which is seemingly a step backwards of mo...