Overview

Drawing on a range of previously unexploredarchival resources, Michael Osman examines the increasing role of environmentaltechnologies in building design from the late nineteenth century- from coldstorage and scientific laboratories to factories. Osman broadens our conceptionof how industrial capitalism shaped the built environment as well as the roleof design in dealing with ecological crises today. 

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Author:   Michael Osman
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
ISBN:  

9781517900984

ISBN 10:   1517900980
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   10 April 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction 1. The Thermostatic Interior and Household Management 2. Cold Storage and the Speculative Market of Preserved Assets 3. Representing Regulation in Nature’s Economy 4. Imaging Brainwork 5. Regulation through Paperwork in Architectural Practice Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Michael Osman weaves a complex web of interaction between architecture, science, and technology, as well as between architecture, business, and management. Modernism's Visible Hand is not only brilliant, it is also path-breaking. -Antoine Picon, author of Smart Cities: A Spatialised Intelligence Michael Osman takes us on an extraordinary journey through turn-of-the-twentieth-century modern American life, travelling from temperature-controlled homes and cold-storage warehouses, to Pennsylvania's factories and Indiana's sand dunes. This engrossing, brilliant book is an altogether new look at American architecture, technology, and everyday life; it will be of immense value to readers interested in all these subjects. -Daniel M. Abramson, author of Obsolescence: An Architectural History

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Michael Osman is associate professor of architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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