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OverviewA groundbreaking history of the confluence of regulatory thinking and building design in the United States What is the origin of ""room temperature""? When did food become considered fresh or not fresh? Why do we think management makes things more efficient? The answers to these questions share a history with architecture and regulation at the turn of the twentieth century. This pioneering technological and architectural history of environmental control systems during the Gilded Age begins with the premise that regulation-of temperature, the economy, even the freshness of food-can be found in the guts of buildings. From cold storage and scientific laboratories to factories, these infrastructures first organized life in a way we now call ""modern."" Drawing on a range of previously unexplored archival resources, Michael Osman examines the increasing role of environmental technologies in building design from the late nineteenth century. He shows how architects appropriated and subsumed the work of engineers as thermostats, air handlers, and refrigeration proliferated. He argues that this change was closely connected to broader cultural and economic trends in management and the regulation of risk. The transformation shaped the evolution of architectural modernism and the development of the building as a machine. Rather than assume the preexisting natural order of things, participants in regulation-including architects, scientists, entrepreneurs, engineers, managers, economists, government employees, and domestic reformers-became entangled in managing the errors, crises, and risks stemming from the nation's unprecedented growth. Modernism's Visible Hand not only broadens our conception of how industrial capitalism shaped the built environment but is also vital to understanding the role of design in dealing with ecological crises today. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael OsmanPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 22.90cm ISBN: 9781517900977ISBN 10: 1517900972 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 10 April 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsPreface 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 IndexReviewsMichael 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 Author InformationMichael Osman is associate professor of architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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