Organizational Complex Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space

Name: Organizational Complex Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space
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ISBN: 9780262633260

ISBN-10: 0262633264

ISBN-13: 9780262633260

Edition: 2005

Authors: Reinhold Martin

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"The Organizational Complex is a historical and theoretical analysis of corporate architecture in the United States after the Second World War. Its title refers to the aesthetic and technological extension of the military-industrial complex, in which architecture, computers, and corporations formed a network of objects, images, and discourses that realigned social relations and transformed the postwar landscape.In-depth case studies of architect Eero Saarinen's work for General Motors, IBM, and Bell Laboratories and analyses of office buildings designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill trace the emergence of a systems-based model of organization in architecture, in which the modular curtain…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/23/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 324
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.06" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Reinhold Martin is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University, and a partner in the firm of Martin/Baxi Architects.



Introduction



The Organizational Complex



Pattern-Seeing



The Physiognomy of the Office



Organic Style



Computer Architectures



The Topologies of Knowledge


Epilogue: Hallucinations


Notes


Index