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The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line. But since its early twentieth-century peak this dream has come to seem a dehumanizing nightmare. Henry Ford's assembly lines turned out a quarter of a million cars in 1914, but all of them were black. Forgotten has been the unparalleled new(...)
The taylorized beauty of the mechanical
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The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line. But since its early twentieth-century peak this dream has come to seem a dehumanizing nightmare. Henry Ford's assembly lines turned out a quarter of a million cars in 1914, but all of them were black. Forgotten has been the unparalleled new aesthetic beauty once seen in the ideas of Ford and scientific management pioneer Frederick Winslow Taylor. In The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical, Mauro Guillén recovers this history and retells the story of the emergence of modernist architecture as a romance with the ideas of scientific management--one that permanently reshaped the profession of architecture. Modernist architecture's pioneers, Guillén shows, found in scientific management the promise of a new, functional, machine-like--and beautiful--architecture, and the prospect of a new role for the architect as technical professional and social reformer. Taylor and Ford had a signal influence on Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and on Le Corbusier and his Towards a New Architecture, the most important manifesto of modernist architecture. Architects were so enamored with the ideas of scientific management that they adopted them even when there was no functional advantage to do so. Not a traditional architectural history but rather a sociological study of the profession of architecture during its early modernist period, The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical provides a new understanding of the degree to which modernist architecture emerged from a tradition of engineering and industrial management.
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Martin Heideggers philosophical works devoted themselves to challenging previously held ontological notions of what constitutes "being", and much of his work focused on how beings interact within particular spatial locations. Frequently, Heidegger used the motifs of homelessness and homecoming in order to express such spatial interactions, and despite early and continued(...)
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December 2008, Toronto, Buffalo, London
Heidegger and homecoming: the leitmotif in the later writings
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Martin Heideggers philosophical works devoted themselves to challenging previously held ontological notions of what constitutes "being", and much of his work focused on how beings interact within particular spatial locations. Frequently, Heidegger used the motifs of homelessness and homecoming in order to express such spatial interactions, and despite early and continued recognition of the importance of homelessness and homecoming, this is the first sustained study of these motifs in his later works.
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This book is an essential reference for all students of architecture, design and the built environment providing a convenient single source for all the key texts in the fast developing discipline of the philosophy of technology. The authors focus on the interplay between technology and society and consider the impact of technology on fields as diverse as: art and visual(...)
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June 2007, New York
Rethinking architectural technology: a reader in architectural theory
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This book is an essential reference for all students of architecture, design and the built environment providing a convenient single source for all the key texts in the fast developing discipline of the philosophy of technology. The authors focus on the interplay between technology and society and consider the impact of technology on fields as diverse as: art and visual culture; politics, the environment, gender and the hottest topic of all in today's digitally mediated world the promise of a virtual future inside the fluid 'space' of the computer.
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On connaissait André Malraux écrivain, sensible à la peinture, à la sculpture, aux arts d'Extrême-Orient ou d'Afrique. Mais il fut également très attentif à la création architecturale française et à la protection du patrimoine. Ministre fondateur des Affaires culturelles sous le général de Gaulle, de 1959 à 1969, il contribua à donner à l'architecture et au patrimoine un(...)
André Malraux et l'architecture
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On connaissait André Malraux écrivain, sensible à la peinture, à la sculpture, aux arts d'Extrême-Orient ou d'Afrique. Mais il fut également très attentif à la création architecturale française et à la protection du patrimoine. Ministre fondateur des Affaires culturelles sous le général de Gaulle, de 1959 à 1969, il contribua à donner à l'architecture et au patrimoine un élan novateur. Il mit en place les fondements de la protection du patrimoine du XXe siècle, lança l'Inventaire général, la loi sur les secteurs sauvegardés et s'intéressa à la commande publique (les préfectures des nouveaux départements de la couronne parisienne, les maisons de la culture, le projet de musée du Vingtième-Siècle), nouant au fil des années des rapports admiratifs ou amicaux avec les architectes contemporains : Le Corbusier bien sûr, Wogenscky, Faugeron. Issu des communications présentées lors de la journée d'études organisée par le comité d'histoire du ministère pour le trentième anniversaire de la mort d'André Malraux, en 2006, cet ouvrage collectif, grâce à l'apport de recherches récentes et de documents inédits, éclaire la politique de l'architecture et du patrimoine des débuts de la Cinquième République. Le CD qui l'accompagne permet d'écouter de nombreux témoignages sur le rôle de l'écrivain-ministre en matière d'architecture et de patrimoine, ainsi que le célèbre hommage à Le Corbusier, prononcé en 1965.
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This revised edition of an essential work by Professor Sir Colin St John Wilson, architect of the British Library and one of the most eminent voices in architectural theory and practice of the last 50 years, is here made available to a new readership. The book is a re-edition, updated and with new design and illustrations, of a seminal work, first published in 1995 and(...)
The other tradition of modern architecture: the uncompleted project
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This revised edition of an essential work by Professor Sir Colin St John Wilson, architect of the British Library and one of the most eminent voices in architectural theory and practice of the last 50 years, is here made available to a new readership. The book is a re-edition, updated and with new design and illustrations, of a seminal work, first published in 1995 and now out of print. With an introduction by Ellis Woodman, Buildings Editor for Building Design magazine. This new edition presents the book in a redesigned format which will be accessible and appealing to the general reader, and priced specifically with a student readership.
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In this pithy and provocative book, the noted economist Daniel Cohen offers his analysis of the global shift to a post-industrial era. If it was once natural to speak of industrial society, Cohen writes, it is more difficult to speak meaningfully of post-industrial "society." The solidarity that once characterized industrial society no longer exists. The different(...)
Three lectures on post-industrial society
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In this pithy and provocative book, the noted economist Daniel Cohen offers his analysis of the global shift to a post-industrial era. If it was once natural to speak of industrial society, Cohen writes, it is more difficult to speak meaningfully of post-industrial "society." The solidarity that once characterized industrial society no longer exists. The different components of large industrial enterprises have been systematically disassembled: tasks considered nonessential are assigned to subcontractors; engineers are grouped together in research sites, distant from the workers. Employees are left exposed and shareholders act to protect themselves. Never has the awareness that we all live in the same world been so strong—and never have the social conditions of existence been so unequal.
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November 2008, Cambridge
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Artifacts (including works of architecture) play dual roles; they simultaneously perform functions and carry meaning. Columns support roofs, but while the sturdy Tuscan and Doric types traditionally signify masculinity, the slim and elegant Ionic and Corinthian kinds read as feminine. Words are often inscribed on objects. (On a door: "push" or "pull.") Today, information(...)
World's greatest architect: making, meaning, and network culture: 0
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Artifacts (including works of architecture) play dual roles; they simultaneously perform functions and carry meaning. Columns support roofs, but while the sturdy Tuscan and Doric types traditionally signify masculinity, the slim and elegant Ionic and Corinthian kinds read as feminine. Words are often inscribed on objects. (On a door: "push" or "pull.") Today, information is digitally encoded (dematerialized) and displayed (rematerialized) to become part of many different objects, at one moment appearing on a laptop screen and at another, perhaps, on a building facade (as in Times Square). Well-designed artifacts succeed in being both useful and meaningful. In "World's Greatest Architect", William Mitchell offers a series of snapshots - short essays and analyses - that examine the systems of function and meaning currently operating in our buildings, cities, and global networks.In his writing, Mitchell makes connections that aren't necessarily obvious but are always illuminating, moving in one essay from Bush-Cheney's abuse of language to Robert Venturi's argument against rigid ideology and in favor of graceful pragmatism. He traces the evolution of Las Vegas from Sin/Sign City to family-friendly resort and residential real estate boomtown. A purchase of chips leads not only to a complementary purchase of beer but to thoughts of Eames chairs (like Pringles) and Gehry (fun to imitate with tortilla chips in refried beans). As for who the world's greatest architect might be, here's a hint: he's also the oldest.
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A milestone in modern thought, Space, Time and Architecture has been reissued many times since its first publication in 1941 and translated into half a dozen languages. In this revised edition of Mr. Giedion's classic work, major sections have been added and there are 81 new illustrations.
Space, time & architecture: the growth of a new tradition
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A milestone in modern thought, Space, Time and Architecture has been reissued many times since its first publication in 1941 and translated into half a dozen languages. In this revised edition of Mr. Giedion's classic work, major sections have been added and there are 81 new illustrations.
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Born in Tokyo, educated in Japan and the United States, and principal of an internationally acclaimed architectural practice, celebrated architect Fumihiko Maki brings to his writings on architecture a perspective that is both global and uniquely Japanese. Influenced by post-Bauhaus internationalism, sympathetic to the radical urban architectural vision of Team X, and a(...)
Architectural Theory
September 2008, Cambridge, London
Nurturing dreams: collected essays on architecture and the city
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Born in Tokyo, educated in Japan and the United States, and principal of an internationally acclaimed architectural practice, celebrated architect Fumihiko Maki brings to his writings on architecture a perspective that is both global and uniquely Japanese. Influenced by post-Bauhaus internationalism, sympathetic to the radical urban architectural vision of Team X, and a participant in the avant-garde movement Metabolism, Maki has been at the forefront of his profession for decades. This collection of essays documents the evolution of architectural modernism and Maki's own fifty-year intellectual journey during a critical period of architectural and urban history.
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Qu'est-ce qu'un lieu ? Un lieu, c'est là où l'on se pose et se repose, se refait. Un répit dans un voyage ou après un trajet. Autour de ce motif, nous est ici proposé un voyage éthno-poétique. Des lieux d'enfance de l'auteur, de ses terrains d'enquête à ceux, fictifs, d'un arpenteurs, des Pyrénées à la Lozère, d'Ardèche en Creuse, reliés entre eux par le tracé improbable(...)
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Qu'est-ce qu'un lieu ? Un lieu, c'est là où l'on se pose et se repose, se refait. Un répit dans un voyage ou après un trajet. Autour de ce motif, nous est ici proposé un voyage éthno-poétique. Des lieux d'enfance de l'auteur, de ses terrains d'enquête à ceux, fictifs, d'un arpenteurs, des Pyrénées à la Lozère, d'Ardèche en Creuse, reliés entre eux par le tracé improbable de petites lignes de chemin de fer, se dessine au fil des pages un éloge des lieux les plus modestes, ou encore mal-aimés. Une famille d'espaces, où chacun pourra se reconnaître. Ces brefs récits nous offrent un autre regard sur les territoires et sur les paysages. Peut-être une nouvelle façon de voyager.
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