INDUSTRIAL ARCHITECTURE IN POST-WAR PUBLICATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Abstract

In the United States, after the Second World War, industrial architecture had considerable weight in architectural journals, which corresponded to the reality of professional practice and the demands of society. The war delayed and paralyzed civilian industrial construction, but its end allowed an updating and expansion of the architectural-industrial fabric, preserving the decentralization promoted by wartime security strategies. The periodicals of the time are an indispensable source of information for reconstructing the progress made in the post-war decade and still in force in industrial architecture. In those years, the magazines did not focus on aesthetic aspects, but rather on organizational, technical and technological advances. Architectural magazines became technical manuals with a clear transmission function to the collective as a whole. The article presents a compilation of the most important publications on architecture for industry in U.S. publications after the Second World War, from 1945 to 1949. The main journals selected are The Architectural Forum, Architectural Record and Progressive Architecture.