Reinhold Martin
Associate Professor of Architecture
The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
Columbia University
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027
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rm454@columbia.edu
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Reinhold
Martin is Associate Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of
Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, where
he directs the PhD program in architecture, and. He is a founding
co-editor of the journal Grey Room,
a partner in the research practice Martin/Baxi Architects, and has
published widely on the history and theory of modern and contemporary
architecture. He is the author of The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space (MIT Press, 2003), and the co-author, with Kadambari Baxi, of Multi-National City: Architectural Itineraries (Actar, 2007). He is currently completing a book that re-theorizes postmodernism.
The Topologies of Knowledge: Laboratory as Office
This talk will analyze examples of research laboratories designed by
architects such as Eero Saarinen, Louis Kahn, and Robert Venturi and
Denise Scott Brown. It will consider these in terms of the emergence of
a post-World War II “organizational complex,” in which
techno-scientific knowledge was subject to new managerial protocols,
new networks of power, and new aesthetic problems.