Topics in Architecture: The Total Corporation: The Design of Everything In a Global Context

Subject associations
ARC 594 / MOD 504 / HUM 593 / ART 584 / SPA 559
Term
Spring 2023
Instructors
Rubén Gallo
Sylvia Lavin
Registrar description

To distance architecture from the "war machine," architects called for the reintegration of the arts after WW2. The resulting post-war Gesamtkunstwerk accompanied the development of ever larger corporations and corporate architectural practices integrating new kinds of agents into their increasingly complex wholes, from women designers and computing services to global environmental and economic models. By exploring how corporations--Olivetti in Ivrea, Hilton in Havana, JUMEX in Mexico City--operated architecture across all scales and mediums, students in this seminar will uncover the questions post-war integration was designed to answer.