[File shoe factory of Agusu]

1903 - 1907 in Munich learned architecture at and the Technical University of Berlin. After graduating, Peter Behrens entered the office of ( 1908 - 1910 ), where they met with Mies van der Rohe. He also participated in the Deutscher Werkbund. The 1911 work, GreCon's Last , was an early modernist architecture using iron and glass reminiscent of the later Bauhaus school building. The building that had a major impact on the design of the Fags plant was the AEG turbine plant designed by Peter Behrens. Kropius and Meyer worked together on the project, providing an interpretation and critique of the work of their teacher, Verence.

Both factories have in common the corners without stanchions and the glass stretched between the piers up to the top floor, but the turbine factories have heavy elements covering the corners to separate the interior. The glass curtain wall also separates the interior and is fitted between the convexly protruding peers to invert. The cargo is narrowed and the building has stability and a monumental exterior.

Fags has exactly the opposite design. The corners are open, and the curtain wall is exposed to the front, so the pier is slightly recessed and inwardly rolled. Gropius himself described this shift as follows: "The role of the wall is limited to just a screen , stretched between the upright pillars of the frame to prevent rain, cold and noise." During the design of Fags, Gropius was a member of the Deutscher Werkbund . He was collecting photographs of American industrial architecture for publication. Those American factory designs were the source of inspiration for Gropius when designing the Fags.