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1851

When Architecture Learned to Be Manufactured

The Crystal Palace

Historic engraving of the Crystal Palace with crowds outside.
The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851.Read & Co., 1851 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Source record

The Moment

Iron, glass and industrial prefabrication produced a building on a new scale.

The Rethink

Architecture could be manufactured rather than constructed only through traditional craft.