Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Taylorizing the Modern Interior: Counter‐Origins
In her profound book The Modern Interior historian Penny Sparke proposes a revisionist definition of the modern interior. With Sparke's expanded definition in mind, our understanding of the 20th‐century origins of the interior design profession broadens. This chapter discusses the earliest designers of American corporate office interiors, a group of men who called themselves “scientific office managers”. They were disciples of the turn‐of‐the‐century industrial theorist Frederick Winslow Taylor, and they practiced a nascent form of interior design. They drew and analyzed floor plans, designed lighting schemes, promoted indoor air‐filtration and conditioning, and designed furniture and specialized equipment. Their work was a comprehensive attempt to form and mediate the collision between intimate human environments, a vital new architectural typology, and the emerging social and cultural realities of industrial modernity. Borrowing the language of French historian Michel Foucault, the scientific office managers were visionary theorists of the emerging disciplinary society.
Taylorizing the Modern Interior: Counter‐Origins
In her profound book The Modern Interior historian Penny Sparke proposes a revisionist definition of the modern interior. With Sparke's expanded definition in mind, our understanding of the 20th‐century origins of the interior design profession broadens. This chapter discusses the earliest designers of American corporate office interiors, a group of men who called themselves “scientific office managers”. They were disciples of the turn‐of‐the‐century industrial theorist Frederick Winslow Taylor, and they practiced a nascent form of interior design. They drew and analyzed floor plans, designed lighting schemes, promoted indoor air‐filtration and conditioning, and designed furniture and specialized equipment. Their work was a comprehensive attempt to form and mediate the collision between intimate human environments, a vital new architectural typology, and the emerging social and cultural realities of industrial modernity. Borrowing the language of French historian Michel Foucault, the scientific office managers were visionary theorists of the emerging disciplinary society.
Taylorizing the Modern Interior: Counter‐Origins
Thompson, Jo Ann Asher (Herausgeber:in) / Blossom, Nancy H. (Herausgeber:in) / Daniel, Ronn M. (Autor:in)
The Handbook of Interior Design ; 58-69
20.03.2015
12 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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