The Organizational Complex

Name: The Organizational Complex
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Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space

Reinhold Martin

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MIT Press
23 September 2005

Theory of architecture; Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial; History: specific events & topics

Series: The Organizational Complex

A historical and theoretical analysis of corporate architecture in the United States after the Second World War.

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.

By: Reinhold Martin
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9780262633260
ISBN 10: 0262633264
Series: The Organizational Complex
Pages: 324
Publication Date: 23 September 2005
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reinhold Martin is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University, and a partner in the firm of Martin/Baxi Architects.