Modern management methods : architecture, historical value, and the electromagnetic image / Caitlin Blanchfield and Farzin Lotfi-Jam.

Main entry:

Blanchfield, Caitlin, author.

Title & Author:

Modern management methods : architecture, historical value, and the electromagnetic image / Caitlin Blanchfield and Farzin Lotfi-Jam.

Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, [2019]

Description:

415 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Series:

Columbia books on architecture and the city

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
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 Ö̈rn Arnórsson -- Anti-photographs / Claire Zimmerman.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781941332566 paperback
1941332560 paperback

Subject:

United Nations Headquarters.
Nations Unies Siège.
United Nations
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Imaging systems in architecture.
Radiography, Industrial.
Architecture Conservation and restoration.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Imagerie en architecture.
Radiographie industrielle.
Architecture Conservation et restauration.
Architecture, Modern
Armed Forces Headquarters
Buildings
Weissenhofsiedlung (Stuttgart, Germany) Buildings, structures, etc.
Germany Stuttgart Weissenhofsiedlung

Added entries:

Lotfi-Jam, Farzin, author.
Allais, Lucia, writer of supplementary textual content.
Columbia books on architecture and the city.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306775
Call No.: BIB 252323
Status: Available

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