Lifted A Cultural History of the Elevator First Edition by Andreas Bernard ISBN 9780814787168 0814787169
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ISBN 10: 0814787169
ISBN 13: 9780814787168
Author: Andreas Bernard
Before skyscrapers forever transformed the landscape of the modern metropolis, the conveyance that made them possible had to be created. Invented in New York in the 1850s, the elevator became an urban fact of life on both sides of the Atlantic by the early twentieth century. While it may at first glance seem a modest innovation, it had wide-ranging effects, from fundamentally restructuring building design to reinforcing social class hierarchies by moving luxury apartments to upper levels, previously the domain of the lower classes. The cramped elevator cabin itself served as a reflection of life in modern growing cities, as a space of simultaneous intimacy and anonymity, constantly in motion.
In this elegant and fascinating book, Andreas Bernard explores how the appearance of this new element changed notions of verticality and urban space. Transforming such landmarks as the Waldorf-Astoria and Ritz Tower in New York, he traces how the elevator quickly took hold in large American cities while gaining much slower acceptance in European cities like Paris and Berlin. Combining technological and architectural history with the literary and cinematic, Bernard opens up new ways of looking at the elevator–as a secular confessional when stalled between floors or as a recurring space in which couples fall in love. Rising upwards through modernity, Lifted takes the reader on a compelling ride through the history of the elevator.
Table of contents:
1 THE BREACH THROUGH THE BUILDING: ORGANIZING THE VERTICAL
A Theory of the Elevator Shaft
Architectures of Linearity
The Void between Floors
2 FROM ATTIC TO PENTHOUSE: THE VERTICAL HIERARCHY OF BUILDINGS
Grand Hotels
Garret Rooms, 1839: Poor Poets and Eloping Couples
The Hygienists’ Battle against the Tenement House
The Semantics of the Attic around the Fin de Siècle
Penthouses, Roof Gardens, and the Executive Suite
3 CONTROLS
The Elevator Operator at the Turn of the Century
Push-Button Controls and the Path to Self-Operated Elevators
A Brief Psychology of the Push Button
4 INTERIORS
The Stairwell
The Assimilation of the Elevator Cab
Urbanization and Spatial Fear: The Cab and Claustrophobia
The Politics of the Elevator
The Elevator in Literature, Film, and Advertising
A Theory of the Elevator Shaft
Architectures of Linearity
The Void between Floors
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