Scientific management's lost aesthetic: architecture, organization, and the taylorized beauty of the mechanical. From: Administrative Science Quarterly | Date: December 1, 1997| Author: Guillen, Mauro F. | COPYRIGHT 1997 Cornell University, Johnson Graduate School. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Drawing on archival and textual materials, this paper challenges conventional views of scientific management by exploring its aesthetic implications through an analysis of the inspiration that the European modernist architects of the 1890-1930 period drew from the ideology and techniques associated with this organizational model. The historical and institutional conditions that surrounded such a revolutionary reinterpretation of scientific management are compared across countries. The common ...

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