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Electric Light: An Architectural History (The MIT Press) by Isenstadt, Sandy is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Electric Light: An Architectural History (The MIT Press) about?
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 a
Who reads Electric Light: An Architectural History (The MIT Press)?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Isenstadt, Sandy
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262038171
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Design, History, Engineering
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14