Modern Management Methods - Architecture, Historical Value, and the Electromagnetic Image
Modern Management Methods - Architecture, Historical Value, and the Electromagnetic Image Modernists of the early twentieth century were transfixed by the X-ray--a means of seeing through skin into…
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Modern Management Methods - Architecture, Historical Value, and the Electromagnetic Image
Modernists of the early twentieth century were transfixed by the X-ray--a means of seeing through skin into systems of bones and tissue. Modern Management Methods asks how the value of a building is produced through instruments of expertise, management ideologies, and historical narratives. What, nearly a century later, can X-rays reveal about the systems of modernism itself?
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 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.