Regulation, Profit and Power: The Transversal Relationships of Aluminum Cladding Production

Scholars have explained mid-century modern architecture as a manifestation of public regulation, private enterprise, or an engagement between the public and the private spheres. Taking this engagement within a mixed economy as a contextual underpinning, and with a particular focus on the economic context of twentieth-century aluminum cladding, this paper suggests the transversal relationship as a framework to under-stand the development of modern architecture in the United States. Such relationships operate as dislocated, distributed and countervailing interactions that can be simultaneously competitive and collaborative, disabling and enabling of goals and outcomes.

Volume Editors
Jasmine Benyamin, Kyle Reynolds, Mo Zell, Nikole Bouchard & Whitney Moon

ISBN
978-1-944214-28-9