Modern Management Methods – Architecture, Historical Value, and the Electromagnetic Image

Caitlin Blanchfield author Farzin Lotfi–jam author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Columbia Books on Architecture and the City

Published:2nd Aug '19

Should be back in stock very soon

Modern Management Methods – Architecture, Historical Value, and the Electromagnetic Image cover

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.

ISBN: 9781941332566

Dimensions: 264mm x 178mm x 23mm

Weight: 936g

304 pages