Review: Corridors: Passages of Modernity , by Roger Luckhurst
2020; University of California Press; Volume: 79; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1525/jsah.2020.79.3.349
ISSN2150-5926
Autores Tópico(s)Philippine History and Culture
ResumoBook Review| September 01 2020 Review: Corridors: Passages of Modernity, by Roger Luckhurst Roger LuckhurstCorridors: Passages of Modernity London: Reaktion Books, 2019, 336 pp., 40 b/w illus. $35 (cloth), ISBN 9781789140538 Daniel M. Abramson Daniel M. Abramson Boston University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2020) 79 (3): 349–350. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2020.79.3.349 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Daniel M. Abramson; Review: Corridors: Passages of Modernity, by Roger Luckhurst. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 September 2020; 79 (3): 349–350. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2020.79.3.349 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search Roger Luckhurst, professor of literature at Birkbeck, University of London, has produced in Corridors: Passages of Modernity a delightful, informative cultural history of one of architecture's most ubiquitous spaces. In nine relatively short chapters focused on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain and the United States, plus an introduction and conclusion, Luckhurst draws on a dizzying array of sources and references—from Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film The Shining, Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre, and the current television anthology series American Horror Story to Charles Fourier's phalanstery, Soviet social condensers, and Ellsworth Milton Statler's hotels—to make the case for corridors' dual utopian and dystopian characters. The introduction establishes Luckhurst's basic argument and his book's difference from other recent treatments of the subject. For example, Luckhurst cites a 2010 article by Mark Jarzombek that occupies the heights of world politics and architectural history, linking corridors to imperial power, speed, connectivity, and flows... You do not currently have access to this content.
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