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

by Farzin Lotfi-Jam and Caitlin Blanchfield

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1941332560
• ISBN13: 9781941332566
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 10.1"