Industrial Versailles
Eero Saarinen's Corporate Campuses for GM, IBM, and ATT
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 3564415 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Scott Gabriel Knowle (0000-0002-2868-4286), Scott G Knowles, Stuart W Leslie |
| Año | 2001 |
| Volumen | 92 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 1-33 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2001-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Isis (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994 |
| Editorial | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/385038 |
| OpenAlex | W1966816215 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 21 |
Eero Saarinen may be a familiar name to architectural historians for his designs for Dulles Airport, the St. Louis Arch, and other late modernist landmarks. Yet his biggest commissions were for corporate research laboratories for General Motors, IBM, and Bell Laboratories. In 1951 Fortune sent a photographer to document GM's sprawling "research campus," just beginning to take shape in suburban Detroit. The photographs capture what the editors called "a new and serene integration" of modern architecture and modern science and engineering. The GM Technical Center (1956), the IBM Thomas Watson Research Center (1961), and Bell Laboratories at Holmdel (1962) symbolized a postwar ideology of corporate research that emphasized basic research and took the university as the appropriate model for organizing science. But as the people who worked in and managed these laboratories over the following decades would learn the hard way, R&D, in the sense of turning scientific inquiry into product and profit, does not necessarily thrive in an "Industrial Versailles
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| Citas por año | 0,88 |
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| Intervalo de citas | 2002 - 2024 (23) |
| Altamente citado | No |