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Modern management methods : architecture, historical value, and the electromagnetic image

Title
Modern management methods : architecture, historical value, and the electromagnetic image / Caitlin Blanchfield and Farzin Lotfi-Jam.
Author
Blanchfield, Caitlin
Publication
New York, NY : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, [2019]

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Additional Authors
  • Lotfi-Jam, Farzin
  • Allais, Lucia
Description
415 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm.
Summary
"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"--
Series Statement
Columbia books on architecture and the city
Uniform Title
Columbia books on architecture and the city.
Subject
  • United Nations > Headquarters
  • United Nations
  • 1900-1999
  • Architecture, Modern > 20th century
  • Imaging systems in architecture
  • Radiography, Industrial
  • Architecture > Conservation and restoration
  • Architecture, Modern
  • Armed Forces > Headquarters
  • Buildings
  • Weissenhofsiedlung (Stuttgart, Germany) > Buildings, structures, etc
  • Germany > Weissenhofsiedlung
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
The forensic impulse / Lucia Allais -- Between information and image / Caitlin Blanchfield and Farzin Lotfi-Jam -- Buber in Rhodesia : The United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library / Óskar Ör̈n Arnórsson -- Anti-photographs / Claire Zimmerman.
Call Number
JQF 19-1556
ISBN
  • 9781941332566
  • 1941332560
LCCN
2019025248
OCLC
  • 1105748021
  • 1105748021
Author
Blanchfield, Caitlin, author.
Title
Modern management methods : architecture, historical value, and the electromagnetic image / Caitlin Blanchfield and Farzin Lotfi-Jam.
Publisher
New York, NY : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, [2019]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Columbia books on architecture and the city
Columbia books on architecture and the city.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Lotfi-Jam, Farzin, author.
Allais, Lucia, writer of supplementary textual content.
Research Call Number
JQF 19-1556
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