Abstract

BERTOZZI, Sergio Gustavo. El Crystal Palace. Arquitectura, ingeniería y diseño industrial en el siglo XIX. AyP contin. [online]. 2021, vol.8, n.15, pp.9-9. ISSN 2362-6089.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.35305/23626097v8i15.305.

Crystal Palace constitutes a milestone in modern engineering and a radical change in the conception and materialization of architectural space based on the industrial production of standardized components for the construction of structures. But, since it is the setting for the first of the great 19th century universal exhibitions, it also embodies the moment in which the state of divorce between art and industry becomes clear. The objects of daily use exhibited and industrially produced, although of high technical quality, were surprisingly ugly, highlighting the absence of a suitable project methodology for them: industrial design. Paradoxically, Crystal Palace was a product of the industry, and as such it acquired its own cultural status, which placed it in a design field different from that of architecture, anticipating a methodology that would end up being defined more than a hundred years later, when Industrial Design acquired disciplinary autonomy.

Keywords : Industrial Design; Structural Design; Industrialization.