Proměny továrního prostoru v období vrcholné průmyslové moderny. Přístupy, problémy a perspektivy soudobého historického výzkumu

The article deals with the problems, approaches and perspectives of the current historical research on industrial architecture. It is not primarily an art history analysis of factory buildings, but rather an examination of their connection with ongoing industrialization. The article asks which concepts, terms and topics have social, economic and cultural historians used to analyze industrial space. Were historians interested in whether factory buildings were the result of cultural transfer and knowledge exchange between Western and Central Europe? Did historians take into account primarily the debates of architects, engineers and experts? Did historians reflect on how the building of factories established power hierarchies and social relations? The article analyses secondary German and English historical literature about industrial architecture that was published in the last three decades. Based on empirical examples of Austrian factories from smaller Bohemian, Moravian and Silesian towns, the article argues that the rise of the modern factory building, with enough lighting, ventilation, heating, hygienic and social facilities, was not a revolutionary event of the interwar period of the 20th century, but a long-term development that started in the second half of the 19th century.