The Taylorized Beauty Of The Mechanical

Author : Mauro F. Guillén
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691221533

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The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical by Mauro F. Guillén Pdf

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 his Towards 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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1372677871

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Mauro F. Guillén: The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of ModernistArchitecture, Princeton/Oxford, 2006 by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Cunningham Wood,Michael C. Wood
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0415276667

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F. W. Taylor by John Cunningham Wood,Michael C. Wood Pdf

Following the volumes on Henri Fayol, this next mini-set in the series focuses on F.W. Taylor, the initiator of "scientific management". Taylor set out to transform what had previously been a crude art form in to a firm body of knowledge.

Author : Michel Anteby
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226092508

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Manufacturing Morals by Michel Anteby Pdf

Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and as one of the world’s most elite business schools, Harvard Business School trains many of the future leaders of Fortune 500 companies. But how does HBS formally and informally ensure faculty and students embrace proper business standards? Relying on his first-hand experience as a Harvard Business School faculty member, Michel Anteby takes readers inside HBS in order to draw vivid parallels between the socialization of faculty and of students. In an era when many organizations are focused on principles of responsibility, Harvard Business School has long tried to promote better business standards. Anteby’s rich account reveals the surprising role of silence and ambiguity in HBS’s process of codifying morals and business values. As Anteby describes, at HBS specifics are often left unspoken; for example, teaching notes given to faculty provide much guidance on how to teach but are largely silent on what to teach. Manufacturing Morals demonstrates how faculty and students are exposed to a system that operates on open-ended directives that require significant decision-making on the part of those involved, with little overt guidance from the hierarchy. Anteby suggests that this model—which tolerates moral complexity—is perhaps one of the few that can adapt and endure over time. Manufacturing Morals is a perceptive must-read for anyone looking for insight into the moral decision-making of today’s business leaders and those influenced by and working for them.

Author : A. Styhre
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230584167

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Perception and Organization by A. Styhre Pdf

Drawing on a heterogeneous body of literature including art, music and media theory, as well as philosophical and historical studies of perception, this book demonstrates that everyday work in organizations is strongly shaped by and embedded in human perception.

Author : Monika Kostera,Michael Pirson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137555625

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Dignity and the Organization by Monika Kostera,Michael Pirson Pdf

This important book focuses on the role of human dignity, its protection and promotion in the context of organization and Humanistic Management. The recent phenomenon of humanism in management already has a rich body of literature and takes up many themes both theoretically, and from a practitioner perspective. Dignity and the Organization is the first book to explicitly deal with the topic of human dignity and management. The chapters address various aspects and problems from a humanistically-oriented perspective, taking up issues relevant for the contemporary management theorists and practitioners, and are concerned with organization, management and the social and cultural context. The book develops the notion of human dignity in conceptual and theoretical terms in its practical application, within the context of organizations.

Author : Virag Molnar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317796435

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Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe by Virag Molnar Pdf

The built environment of former socialist countries is often deemed uniform and drab, an apt reflection of a repressive regime. Building the State peeks behind the grey façade to reveal a colourful struggle over competing meanings of the nation, Europe, modernity and the past in a divided continent. Examining how social change is closely intertwined with transformations of the built environment, this volume focuses on the relationship between architecture and state politics in postwar Central Europe using examples from Hungary and Germany. Built around four case studies, the book traces how architecture was politically mobilized in the service of social change, first in socialist modernization programs and then in the postsocialist transition. Building the State does not only offer a comprehensive survey of the diverse political uses of architecture in postwar Central Europe but is the first book to explore how transformations of the built environment can offer a lens into broader processes of state formation and social change.

Author : Brigitte Le Normand
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822979548

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Designing Tito's Capital by Brigitte Le Normand Pdf

The devastation of World War II left the Yugoslavian capital of Belgrade in ruins. Communist Party leader Josip Broz Tito saw this as a golden opportunity to recreate the city through his own vision of socialism. In Designing Tito’s Capital, Brigitte Le Normand analyzes the unprecedented planning process called for by the new leader, and the determination of planners to create an urban environment that would benefit all citizens. Led first by architect Nikola Dobrovic and later by Miloš Somborski, planners blended the predominant school of European modernism and the socialist principles of efficient construction and space usage to produce a model for housing, green space, and working environments for the masses. A major influence was modernist Le Corbusier and his Athens Charter published in 1943, which called for the total reconstruction of European cities, transforming them into compact and verdant vertical cities unfettered by slumlords, private interests, and traffic congestion. As Yugoslavia transitioned toward self-management and market socialism, the functionalist district of New Belgrade and its modern living were lauded as the model city of socialist man. The glow of the utopian ideal would fade by the 1960s, when market socialism had raised expectations for living standards and the government was eager for inhabitants to finance their own housing. By 1972, a new master plan emerged under Aleksandar Ðordevic, fashioned with the assistance of American experts. Espousing current theories about systems and rational process planning and using cutting edge computer technology, the new plan left behind the dream for a functionalist Belgrade and instead focused on managing growth trends. While the public resisted aspects of the new planning approach that seemed contrary to socialist values, it embraced the idea of a decentralized city connected by mass transit. Through extensive archival research and personal interviews with participants in the planning process, Le Normand’s comprehensive study documents the evolution of ‘New Belgrade’ and its adoption and ultimate rejection of modernist principles, while also situating it within larger continental and global contexts of politics, economics, and urban planning.

Author : Alistair Black
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317105343

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Libraries of Light by Alistair Black Pdf

For the first hundred years or so of their history, public libraries in Britain were built in an array of revivalist architectural styles. This backward-looking tradition was decisively broken in the 1960s as many new libraries were erected up and down the country. In this new Routledge book, Alistair Black argues that the architectural modernism of the post-war years was symptomatic of the age’s spirit of renewal. In the 1960s, public libraries truly became ‘libraries of light’, and Black further explains how this phrase not only describes the shining new library designs – with their open-plan, decluttered, Scandinavian-inspired designs – but also serves as a metaphor for the public library’s role as a beacon of social egalitarianism and cultural universalism. A sequel to Books, Buildings and Social Engineering (2009), Black's new book takes his fascinating story of the design of British public libraries into the era of architectural modernism.

Author : Barbara Jean Larson,Fae Brauer
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 1584657758

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The Art of Evolution by Barbara Jean Larson,Fae Brauer Pdf

A timely and stimulating collection of essays about the impact of Darwin's ideas on visual culture

Author : Ian M Taplin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317322849

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The Modern American Wine Industry by Ian M Taplin Pdf

This study is both a history of the American wine industry and an examination of its current structure and performance. In analysing market formation, Taplin focuses on a complex network of winery owners, winemakers and grape growers to see how relationships have shaped the evolution of this sector.

Author : Perttu Salovaara
Publisher : University of Tampere
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789514485824

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From Leader-Centricity Toward Leadership by Perttu Salovaara Pdf

Author : Jos C. N. Raadschelders,Brian R. Fry
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781478649748

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Mastering Public Administration by Jos C. N. Raadschelders,Brian R. Fry Pdf

Raadschelders and Fry provide a singular investigation into the influence of 10 scholars on contemporary public administration as well as how significant their work continues to be on contemporary research. In a field that is eclectic and pragmatic, it is only fitting that the diversity of the following scholars reflects the diversity of the field of public administration: Max Weber, Frederick W. Taylor, Luther H. Gulick, Mary Parker Follett, Elton Mayo, Chester Barnard, Herbert A. Simon, Charles E. Lindblom, Elinor Ostrom, and Dwight Waldo. The impacts of their personal life experiences on scholarly thought and their ideas about science and a science of public administration are used to enhance an examination of their ideas, concepts, and theories. The writings of such a wide-ranging group of scholars are also connected by a recognition of the growth and organizational independence of the field of public administration. For the Fourth Edition, a new perspective has been included: a review of Elinor Ostrom’s work provides valuable new material on organization and decision making that is applicable in many disciplines and across many fields. In addition, substantive updates to the scholarship and analysis found in each of the chapters in the book encourage new avenues for questions, insight, and exploration in the field of public administration.

Author : Nathaniel Coleman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781474287739

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Materials and Meaning in Architecture by Nathaniel Coleman Pdf

Interweaving architecture, philosophy and cultural history, Materials and Meaning in Architecture develops a rich and multi-dimensional exploration of materials and materiality, in an age when architectural practice seems otherwise preoccupied with image and visual representation. Arguing that architecture is primarily experienced by the whole body, rather than chiefly with the eyes, this broad-ranging study shows how the most engaging built works are as tactile as they are sensuous, communicating directly with the bodily senses, especially touch. It explores the theme of 'material imagination' and the power of establishing 'place identity' in an architect's work, to consider the enduring expressive possibilities of material use in architecture. The book's chapters can be dipped into, each individual chapter providing close readings of built works by selected modern masters (Scarpa, Zumthor, Williams and Tsien), insights into key texts and theories (Ruskin, Loos, Bachelard), or short cultural histories of materials (wood, brick, concrete, steel, and glass). And yet, taken together, the chapters build to a powerful book-length argument about how meaning accrues to materials through time, and about the need to reinsert the bodily experience of materiality into architectural design. It is thus also, in part, a manifesto: arguing for architecture to act as a bulwark against the tide of an increasingly depersonalised built environment. With insights for a wide range of readers, ranging from students through to researchers and professional designers, Materials and Meaning in Architecture will cause theorists to rethink their assumptions and designers to see new potential for their projects.

Author : Zaheer Allam,Didier Chabaud,Catherine Gall,Florent Pratlong,Carlos Moreno
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780323986243

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Resilient and Sustainable Cities by Zaheer Allam,Didier Chabaud,Catherine Gall,Florent Pratlong,Carlos Moreno Pdf

The role of Cities in driving global economies has been well covered, and their impact on the larger ecosystem is well documented. Resilient and Sustainable Cities: Research, Policy and Practice explores how cities can be transformed into sustainable fabrics, while leading to positive socio-economic change. The topics include urban policy and covers the challenges cities experienced during the pandemic and resulting urban responses from federal, state, and local levels. This includes a transdisciplinary perspective dwelling on the city narrative, including Resources, Economics, Politics, and others. Resilient and Sustainable Cities serves as a valuable resource for leaders and practitioners working in Urban Policy and academia, as well as students in urban planning, architecture, and policy undergraduate and graduate level programs. Explores the impacts of COVID-19 on cities and its socio-economic impacts Provides regenerative avenues for cities in a post-pandemic context Introduces the concept of the "15-Minute City" Underlines urban regenerative avenues, including financing needs, for cities in the global south