{"title":"Arindam Dutta","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"bureaucracy-of-beauty-book-arindam-dutta-9780415979207","title":"The Bureaucracy of Beauty","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Bureaucracy of Beauty\u0026gt;\u003c\/em\u003eis a wide-ranging work of cultural theory that connects literary studies, postcoloniality, the history of architecture and design, and the history and present of empire. Professor Ananya Roy of UC Berkeley calls it a fantastic book, and in many ways this is the best description of it. \u003cem\u003eThe Bureaucracy of Beauty\u0026gt;\u003c\/em\u003ebegins with nineteenth-century Britain's Department of Science and Arts, a venture organized by the Board of Trade, and how the DSA exerted a powerful influence on the growth of museums, design schools, and architecture throughout the British Empire. But this is only the book's literal subject: in a remarkable set of chapters, Dutta explores the development of international laws of intellectual property, ideas of design pedagogy, the technological distinction between craft and industry, the relation of colonial tutelage to economic policy, the politics and technology of exhibition, and competing philosophies of aesthetics. His thinking across these areas is ignited by engagements with Benjamin, Marx, Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham, Kant, Mill, Ruskin, and Gandhi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA rich study in the history of ideas, of design and architecture, and of cultural politics, \u003cem\u003eThe Bureaucracy of Beauty\u0026gt;\u003c\/em\u003econverges on the issues of present-day globalization. From nineteenth-century Britain to twenty-first century America, \u003cem\u003eThe Bureaucracy of Beauty\u0026gt;\u003c\/em\u003eoffers a theory of how things - big things -change.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50697085747473,"sku":"NGR9780415979207","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50762062790929,"sku":"CIN041597920XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/041597920X.jpg?v=1750941717"},{"product_id":"second-modernism-book-arindam-dutta-9780262019859","title":"A Second Modernism","description":"An account of architecture's postwar ambition to transform itself into a research-oriented and technologically complex discipline of design expertise.After World War I, a second modernism emerged in architecture--an attempt, in architectural scholar Joan Ockman's words, to transform architecture from a 'soft' aesthetic discipline into a 'hard, ' objectively verifiable field of design expertise. Architectural thought was influenced by linguistic, behavioral, computational, mediatic, cybernetic, and other urban and behavioral models, as well as systems-based and artificial intelligence theories. This nearly 1,000-page book examines the techno-social turn in architecture, taking MIT's School of Architecture and Planning as its exemplar. In essays and interviews, prominent architectural historians and educators examine the postwar research-industrial complex, its attendant cult of expertise, and its influence on life and letters both in America and abroad. Paying particular attention to the ways that technological thought affected the culture of the humanities, the social sciences, and architectural design, the book traces this shift toward complexity as it unfolded, from classroom practices to committee deliberations, from the challenges of research to the vicissitudes of funding. Looking closely at the ways that funded research drew academics towards a problem-solving and relevance-seeking mentality and away from the imported Bauhaus model of intuition and aesthetics, the book reveals how linguistics, information sciences, operations research, computer technology, and systems theory became part of architecture's expanded toolkit. This is a history not just of a school of architecture but of the research-oriented era itself. It offers a thoroughgoing exploration of the ways that policies, politics, and pedagogy transformed themselves in accord with the exponential growth of institutional power.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51331308355857,"sku":"CIN026201985XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/026201985X.jpg?v=1751100986"},{"product_id":"entrepreneur-s-journey-in-pre-liberal-india-book-arindam-dutta-9781484128022","title":"An Entrepreneur's Journey in pre-Liberal India","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51672597987601,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51672598151441,"sku":"NIN9781484128022","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1484128028.jpg?v=1750892481"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-arindam-dutta.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}