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<div style="margin: 0px;">The Ivory Tower Working Group is pleased to
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Bill Rankin</b>,
who will discuss:</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><b>Management and Modernism: Laboratory
Design Goes Corporate, 1938-1960</b></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><b>Thursday, April 13th, 12:30-2, Science
Center 252</b></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;">Who
cares about architecture? or rather-- in the middle of the 20th
century, why did scientists (and science managers) turn to modernist
architects to design their laboratories? How should we understand
these modernist buildings -- buildings that by the 1950s housed the
research of almost all major corporate and governmental labs? What
does it mean that they were "modernist"? doesn't modernism just mean
"functionalism"?</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">On <b>Thu</b><b>rsday,
April 13th</b>,
Bill Rankin will answer all these questions and more. He will be
speaking about the design of corporate laboratories and the
relationship between architecture and management -- especially the
problem of managing knowledge workers within large corporations. Come
ready for some action-packed interdisciplinary fun: he will discuss
individual laboratories with respect to the profession of architecture;
he will likewise place the discourse of architectural modernism within
the context of the management and design ideas of scientists and
science administrators! (And there will be a free lunch!)</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">If you would
like to eat, <b>please RSVP</b> to ben at <a
href="mailto:jhurlbut@fas.harvard.edu">jhurlbut@fas.harvard.edu</a></span></div>
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Kara W. Swanson, B.S., M.A., J.D.
Ph.D. Candidate
History of Science
Harvard University
Science Center 371
Cambridge, MA 02138
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kswanson@fas.harvard.edu">kswanson@fas.harvard.edu</a>
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