"Deeply historical and comparative, Mauro Guillen shows how a
neo-institutionalist and social movement analysis complement each
other as he explains the emergence and rise to prominence of
modernist architecture. Systematic in its use of data, the book is
nuanced in its analysis. He examines the several strains of
modernism and subtly explains why modernism takes hold in some
countries, but not others. An excellent analysis of aesthetics and
the transformation of the profession of architecture."--Mayer Zald,
University of Michigan
"When Frederick Winslow Taylor was hectoring the workers of the
Bethlehem Iron Works to greater productivity, who would have
guessed that this stolid, obsessive Philadelphian would inspire
visionary aesthetic movements across the European continent? Mauro
Guillen interrogates the surprising affinity between scientific
management and architectural modernism until it yields both
engrossing narrative and analytic insight. Combining the skills of
the comparative historian with those of the detective, he follows
his quarry around the globe, demonstrating the consistent
connection between Taylorism and modernist architecture. In so
doing he has produced what will be at once an important
contribution to the history of architecture and a landmark study in
the sociology of culture."--Paul DiMaggio, Princeton University
"Conventional wisdom is that scientific management's effects
have been largely negative in moral and aesthetic terms. Guillen
proposes that it has given rise to a distinctive artistic form
associated with a new moral ethic and sensibility. The attempt to
link theories of organizing and artistic styles is novel and should
be of interest to studentsof culture and society generally."--W.
Richard Scott, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Stanford
University
"Guillen documents with a profusion of information the influence
of scientific management on the architects who played an important
part in the emergence of modern architecture. He has mustered an
impressive array of sources, including many primary sources on
Latin American architecture that are almost never considered in the
canonical literature."--Magali Sarfatti Larson, Professor of
Sociology, Temple University
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