Modern Management Methods - Architecture, Historical Value, and the Electromagnetic Image (Paperback)

Modernists of the early twentieth century were transfixed by the X-ray-a means of seeing through skin into systems of bones and tissue. What, nearly a century later, can X-rays reveal about the systems of modernism itself? Modern Management Methods asks how the value of a building is produced through instruments of expertise, management ideologies, and historical narratives. Through unorthodox survey practices, the project uses the imaging techniques of conservation and the documentary detritus of heritage preservation to show how scientific methods attempt to produce stable notions of history and value. Deploying the medium of the X-ray, Caitlin Blanchfield and Farzin Lotfi-Jam tell two related histories of building conservation, internationalism, and the making of modernist meaning through the architect Le Corbusier's building Stuttgart's Weissenhofsiedlung and the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

General

Imprint:	Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2019
Authors:	Caitlin Blanchfield • Farzin Lotfi-Jam
Dimensions:	264 x 178 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-1-941332-56-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Architectural structure & design Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Design styles > Modernist design & Bauhaus
LSN:	1-941332-56-0
Barcode:	9781941332566

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