Fagus Factory

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The Fagus Factory (German:Fagus Fabrik) was built in 1911 in Alfeld on the Leine. It was designed by the architect Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer. It was a very important early modernist building.

Nikolaus Pevsner writes in Pioneers of Modern Design:-

"For the first time a complete facade is conceived in glass. The supporting piers are reduced to narrow mullions of brick. The corners are left without any support, a treatment which has since been imitated over and over again. The expression of the flat roof has also changed. Only in the buildings by Adolf Loos which was done one year before the Fagus Factory, have we seen the same feeling for the pure cube. Another exceedingly important quality of Gropius's building is that, thanks to the large expanses of clear glass, the usual hard separation of exterior and interior is annihilated.

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