Peter Behrens was a pioneering German architect and designer born in 1868. He studied painting and worked as a graphic artist before becoming the architectural and design director for AEG in 1907. One of his most notable works was the AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin, built between 1908-1909. It featured an innovative hybrid structure of iron and glass that represented Behrens' vision of transforming industrial buildings into entities of high culture. While the design collaborated with the engineer, Behrens adhered strongly to classical architectural concepts, concealing the actual hinged arch structure beneath a cornice to give the visual impression of a trabeated temple form. Behrens had a influential career working across architecture, design, and education

1. ARCHITECTURAL
SEMINAR
PETER
BEHRENS
BY – RAVINDRA SINGH
08110033
B. ARCH. 3RD YR

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

7. HAUS BEHRENS

8. GERMAN EMBASSY AT
ST. PETERSBERG

9. IG FARBEN HOCHST
HEADQUARTERS FRANKFRUT

10. NEW WAYS PARIVATE
DWELLING
NORTHAMPTON

11. AEG TURBINE HALL BERLIN

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

14. PLAN

15. SECTION

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

18. BEHRENS AS INDUSTRIAL
DESIGNER

21. REFERENCES
•http://www.behrens-peter.com/
•http://www.greatbuildings.com/
•http://www.wikipedia.org/