Main entry:

Guillén, Mauro F.

Title & Author:

The Taylorized beauty of the mechanical : scientific management and the rise of modernist architecture / Mauro F. Guillén.

Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2006.

Description:

xii, 186 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Series:

Princeton studies in cultural sociology

Notes:
Series from jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-178) and index.
Preface -- Organization, modernism, and architecture -- The Taylorized beauty of the mechanical -- What caused modernist architecture? -- Industrialization, technology, and the state: Britain, France, Germany -- Backwardness and revolution: Italy, Russia, Spain -- Modernism without modernity: Mexico, Brazil, Argentina -- Sponsorship, professionalization, and modernist architecture -- The enduring promise of modernist architecture -- Appendix: leading architects.

Summary:

"The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line. But since its early twentieth-century peak this dream has come to seem a dehumanizing nightmare. Henry Ford's assembly lines turned out a quarter of a million cars in 1914, but all of them were black. Forgotten has been the unparalleled new aesthetic beauty once seen in the ideas of Ford and scientific management pioneer Frederick Winslow Taylor. In The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical, Mauro Guillén recovers this history and retells the story of the emergence of modernist architecture as a romance with the ideas of scientific management--one that permanently reshaped the profession of architecture. Modernist architecture's pioneers, Guillén shows, found in scientific management 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. Taylor and Ford had a signal influence on Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and on Le Corbusier and hisTowards a New Architecture, the most important manifesto of modernist architecture. Architects were so enamored with the ideas of scientific management that they adopted them even when there was no functional advantage to do so. Not a traditional architectural history but rather a sociological study of the profession of architecture during its early modernist period, The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical provides a new understanding of the degree to which modernist architecture emerged from a tradition of engineering and industrial management."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

9780691115207 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0691115206 (hbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Taylor, Frederick Winslow 1856-1915
Modern movement (Architecture)
Architectural practice History 20th century.
Architecture and society.
Architecture Economic aspects.
Industrial management.
Engineering Management.
Art movements.
Architectural practice, International History 20th century.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)
Mouvements artistiques.
Architecture Pratique internationale Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture et société.
Architecture Aspect économique.
Gestion d'entreprise.
Ingénierie Gestion.
schools (critical concept)
Architectural practice, International
Architectural practice
Bauhaus
Architektur
Architekturtheorie
Industriebau
Taylorismus
Gesellschaft
Industrie
Wirtschaft
Bouwkunst.
Modernisme (cultuur)
Functionalisme.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Princeton studies in cultural sociology.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 246166
Call No.: BIB 175774
Status: Available