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 wall acts as both an organizational device and a carrier of the corporate image. Such an image--of the corporation as a flexible, integrated system--is seen to correspond with a "humanization" of corporate life, as corporations decentralize both spatially and administratively.Parallel analyses follow the assimilation of cybernetics into aesthetics in the writings of artist and visual theorist Gyorgy Kepes, as art merges with techno-science in the service of a dynamic new "pattern-seeing." Image and system thus converge in the organizational complex, while top-down power dissolves into networked, pattern-based control. Architecture, as one among many media technologies, supplies the patterns--images of organic integration designed to regulate new and unstable human-machine assemblages.
發表於2024-11-23
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Not easy to parse; went through quickly to get the main argument. Might require a second reading to see if it makes sense.
評分1.組織還有熵,熵的進化是反嚮的,也就是說一個復雜的體係最終的錶現是極簡的,庫布裏剋在2001太空漫遊裏的紀念碑就是Organizational Complex最好的象徵2.整本書就是在說如何做一個好的地獄3.之前也曾看過沙裏寜的crow island school,對他的設計深有體會,一種經過精心組織過的綜閤體,卻也不乏人情味
評分Not easy to parse; went through quickly to get the main argument. Might require a second reading to see if it makes sense.
評分Not easy to parse; went through quickly to get the main argument. Might require a second reading to see if it makes sense.
評分1.組織還有熵,熵的進化是反嚮的,也就是說一個復雜的體係最終的錶現是極簡的,庫布裏剋在2001太空漫遊裏的紀念碑就是Organizational Complex最好的象徵2.整本書就是在說如何做一個好的地獄3.之前也曾看過沙裏寜的crow island school,對他的設計深有體會,一種經過精心組織過的綜閤體,卻也不乏人情味
The Organizational Complex 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載