Fagus: Industrial Culture from Werkbund to Bauhaus by Annemarie Jaeggi
Translated from the German by Elizabeth M. Schwaiger
4to. pp. 152. b/w illustrations.. bibliography. hardcover (fine condition). New York: Princeton Architectural Press, [2000].
First American Edition.
ISBN-10: 1568981759 / ISBN-13: 9781568981758
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The Fagus Shoe-Last factory in Germany, designed by Walter Gropius in 1911, was the first large structure to use a steel frame and a facade almost entirely of glass. This revolutionary technique was a seminal point in modern architecture.