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Drawing on a range of previously unexploredarchival resources, Michael Osman examines the increasing role of environmentaltechnologies in building design from the late nineteenth century- from coldstorage and scientific laboratories to factories. Osman broadens our conceptionof how industrial capitalism shaped the built environment as well as the roleof design in dealing with ecological crises today. 

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Michael Osman weaves a complex web of interaction between architecture, science, and technology, as well as between architecture, business, and management. Modernism's Visible Hand is not only brilliant, it is also path-breaking. -Antoine Picon, author of Smart Cities: A Spatialised Intelligence Michael Osman takes us on an extraordinary journey through turn-of-the-twentieth-century modern American life, travelling from temperature-controlled homes and cold-storage warehouses, to Pennsylvania's factories and Indiana's sand dunes. This engrossing, brilliant book is an altogether new look at American architecture, technology, and everyday life; it will be of immense value to readers interested in all these subjects. -Daniel M. Abramson, author of Obsolescence: An Architectural History

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Michael Osman is associate professor of architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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