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The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist Architecture

The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist Architecture

The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist Architecture

$45.00

Guillen, Mauro F.

Pap. Princeton, 2008

Book ID: 78681

Retelling of the story of the emergence of modernist architecture as a romance with the ideas of scientific management, which offered 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.

186 pp., 49 B&W illus.