@joost Yeah the Bechers talk about them being made by anonymous architects, and how the same structures around the world more or less solved the same problems for their specific needs.
I guess the water towers might have the most variance.
I also seem to recall that they thought these buildings would be gone, that they have a short shelf life, and so this was also a nice way of documenting them.
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Lot of water towers remain here.
Like this one https://www.usine-utrecht.nl/eerste-w...
Like this one https://www.usine-utrecht.nl/eerste-w...
I think the water towers are beautiful but in many countries would be preserved as they're functional but I know someone who lives in a converted one.
But I think a lot of the industrial buildings will be gone one day, like the blast furnaces
https://mltshp.com/p/L3J0
But I think a lot of the industrial buildings will be gone one day, like the blast furnaces
https://mltshp.com/p/L3J0
Far as I can tell the Bechers had more limited impact in the US, outside of people who pay attention to these things. The Typologies always fascinated me though, there was so much going on in such simple-seeming things.
I think they had more effect here through mentoring people like Andreas Gursky and Petra Wunderlich. I think the Typologies were too dismal-looking for Americans of the Reagan era and afterwards.
I think they had more effect here through mentoring people like Andreas Gursky and Petra Wunderlich. I think the Typologies were too dismal-looking for Americans of the Reagan era and afterwards.
Probably saved a lot of it