Ebook {Epub PDF} Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator by Andreas Bernard

 · Andreas Bernard’s Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator (published Febru) is a fascinating look at the history of the elevator and how it transformed how Westerners conceived of vertical space, much like the railroad transformed horizontal space during the /5.  · Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator by Andreas Bernard | Editorial Reviews. Hardcover $ Hardcover. $ NOOK Book. $ View All Available Formats Editions. Ship This Item — Qualifies for Free Shipping.  · Overview. 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 s, 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 ISBN

Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator. Lifted.: Andreas Bernard. NYU Press, - Architecture - pages. 1 Review. 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 s, the elevator became an urban fact of life on both. LIFTED: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE ELEVATOR. By Andreas Bernard. There are a lot of candidates for the inanimate icon of modernity—the one object to symbolize the sea change in Western life. A Cultural History of the Elevator, obra del estudioso alemán Andreas Bernard. La versión original (su tesis) tiene ya algunos años (Die Geschichte des Fahrstuhls. Über einen beweglichen Ort der Moderne, ), y su última obra, que acaba de aparecer, va por otros derroteros, dedicada a las nuevas tecnologías reproductivas y el orden.

Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator: Author: Andreas Bernard: Edition: illustrated: Publisher: NYU Press, ISBN: , Length: pages: Subjects. Canada and the United States. Andreas Bernard ambitiously explores the relationship between an important technological innovation and its effect upon the imaginative capacities of the residents of European and American cities. Bernard claims the elevator created a marginal but paradigmatic site for interpreting the dramatic influence of modernity upon urban culture at the turn of the twentieth century. 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.