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Sandy Isenstadt Electric Light (Hardback) MIT Press (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Electric Light : an Architectural History
- Publication Name
- Electric Light
- Title
- Electric Light
- Subtitle
- An Architectural History
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 026203817X
- EAN
- 9780262038171
- ISBN
- 9780262038171
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Genre
- Design, Technology & Engineering, Architecture
- Topic
- Interior Design / Lighting, General, Electrical, History / General
- Release Date
- 25/09/2018
- Release Year
- 2018
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Item Width
- 7.4in
- Series
- MIT Press
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Item Weight
- 25.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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How electric light created new spaces that transformed the built environment and the perception of modern architecture. In 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.Isenstadt 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.
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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
026203817x
ISBN-13
9780262038171
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22038623752
Product Key Features
Book Title
Electric Light : an Architectural History
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Interior Design / Lighting, General, Electrical, History / General
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Design, Technology & Engineering, Architecture
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
7.4in
Item Weight
25.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Tk4188.I84 2018
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In varying the scope of his reflections--from the detail of the light switch to the suspended temporality of a city's electrified streets--Isenstadt engages readers on a compelling journey at the intersection of society, culture, and technology. Rather than deploying aesthetic categories, Isenstadt focuses on new visual habits-- The Architect's Newspaper -- Isenstadt's book explores an understudied field, making valuable contributions and connections between studies of science, technology, and society (STS) as well as art and architectural history. The book is also written in a sophisticated yet accessible manner for readers who simply want to expand their horizon. -- The Journal of Architectural Education -- Isenstadt has created a work that is every bit as bright and kaleidoscopic as the Great White Way he describes with such relish. His prose is always provocative and punchy, whether he is describing the invention of the light switch or evoking Martin Heidegger, James Joyce, and Marcel Proust. -- Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians --
Copyright Date
2018
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2017-053679
Dewey Decimal
621.3209
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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