: scientific management and the rise of modernist architecture
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\ Mauro F. Guillén
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Princeton
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: Princeton University Press
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, 2006
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xii, 186 p., [24] p.
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Princeton studies in cultural sociology
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Preface -- Organization, modernism, and architecture -- The Taylorized beauty of the mechanical -- What caused modernist architecture? -- Industrialization, technology, and the state: Britain, France, Germany -- Backwardness and revolution: Italy, Russia, Spain -- Modernism without modernity: Mexico, Brazil, Argentina -- Sponsorship, professionalization, and modernist architecture -- The enduring promise of modernist architecture -- Appendix: leading architects.