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020 $a9780262038171$qhardcover ;$qalkaline paper
020 $a026203817X$qhardcover ;$qalkaline paper
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050 00 $aTK4188$b.I84 2018
082 00 $a621.3209$223
100 1 $aIsenstadt, Sandy,$d1957-$eauthor.
245 10 $aElectric light :$ban architectural history /$cSandy Isenstadt.
264 1 $aCambridge, Massachusetts :$bThe MIT Press,$c[2018]
300 $a292 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aFlip of a switch -- Driving through the American night -- Lighting for labor -- Electric speech in the city -- Conclusion : groping in the dark.
520 8 $aIn this book, Sandy Isenstadt examines electric light as a form of architecture-as a new, uniquely modern kind of building material. Electric light was more than just a novel way of brightening a room or illuminating a streetscape; it brought with it new ways of perceiving and experiencing space itself. If modernity can be characterized by rapid, incessant change, and modernism as the creative response to such change, Isenstadt argues, then electricity-instantaneous, malleable, ubiquitous, evanescent-is modernity's medium.0Isenstadt shows how the introduction of electric lighting at the end of the nineteenth century created new architectural spaces that altered and sometimes eclipsed previously existing spaces. He constructs an architectural history of these new spaces through five examples, ranging from the tangible miracle of the light switch to the immaterial and borderless gloom of the wartime blackout. He describes what it means when an ordinary person can play God by flipping a switch; when the roving cone of automobile headlights places driver and passenger at the vertex of a luminous cavity; when lighting in factories is seen to enhance productivity; when Times Square became an emblem of illuminated commercial speech; and when the absence of electric light in a blackout produced a new type of space. In this book, the first sustained examination of the spatial effects of electric lighting, Isenstadt reconceives modernism in architecture to account for the new perceptual conditions and visual habits that followed widespread electrification.
650 0 $aElectric lighting$xPsychological aspects.
650 0 $aElectric lighting$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aMunicipal lighting$xHistory.
650 0 $aStreet lighting$xHistory.
650 0 $aLighting, Architectural and decorative$xHistory.
650 7 $aElectric lighting$xSocial aspects.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00905082
650 7 $aLighting, Architectural and decorative.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00998669
650 7 $aMunicipal lighting.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01029383
650 7 $aStreet lighting.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01134687
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
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