Drawing Management: Corporate Organization, International Practice, and the Making of Computer Aided Design
Date of Award
Spring 2024
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Architecture
First Advisor
Rankin, Bill
Abstract
Drawing Management traces the remaking of everyday practices of architectural design and documentation in terms of information management and the treatment of these practices as objects of design that characterize much of contemporary architectural production. Exploring how these terms were shaped by and came to shape a number of speculative and international commissions taken on by Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill, Caudill, Rowlett Scott, and Hellmuth, Obata, Kassabaum, between 1965 and 1993, it reveals the constitutive role techniques and metaphors from the fields of organizational management, computer science, and international relations played in forming one another, the shape of the built environment, and the profession of architecture. In doing so, Drawing Management recasts narratives of a momentous “digital turn” led by self-consciously avant-garde architects to instead show a longer less deliberate trajectory of computer use that highlights the contingency of present practices as well as the assumptions they carry with them.
Recommended Citation
Tobey, Aaron, "Drawing Management: Corporate Organization, International Practice, and the Making of Computer Aided Design" (2024). Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations. 1451.
https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/gsas_dissertations/1451
