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Alphabetical vertical ï¬les, c. 1912. White Collar Corbusier: From the Casier to the cités dâaffaires ALEXANDRA LANGE After World War I France looked to America, not for architecture but for equipment. Le Corbusierâs 1935 trip, chronicled in When the Cathedrals Were White, was actually ï¬ve years behind the times. His countrymen Hyacinthe Dubreuil and Georges Duhamel (both of whose books Le Corbusier owned) had already craned their necks at New York and Chicago skyscrapers and watched the car carcasses go by on Fordâs assembly line. But they were social critics, not designers. It was Le Corbusier who extended Frederick Winslow Taylorâs scientific management beyond the factory and into society as part of the larger interwar application of timesaving principles to the white-collar office and a resumption of the SaintSimonian ideal of the right man for the job. Le Corbusierâs affinity for scientific management linked him to other postâWorld War I thinkers in France who saw technology, in the right hands, as the revolutionary element for society.1 Mary McLeodâs pioneering research about this afï¬liation is a contribution to intellectual history that I would like to extend toward design. It is my contention that scientiï¬c managementââthe regime of recordsââgenerated new
Grey Room – MIT Press
Published: Oct 1, 2002
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