{"id":121602,"date":"2021-08-30T23:27:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T03:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/?p=121602"},"modified":"2021-08-30T23:27:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T03:27:10","slug":"modern-spaces-of-electric-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/2021\/08\/30\/modern-spaces-of-electric-light\/","title":{"rendered":"MODERN SPACES OF ELECTRIC LIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians<br \/>\nand the Athenaeum of Philadelphia present<br \/>\n<strong>MODERN SPACES OF ELECTRIC LIGHT<br \/>\n<\/strong>by Sandy Isenstadt, Professor and Chair, History of Modern Architecture, University of Delaware and author of <u>Electric Light: An Architectural History<\/u> (MIT Press 2018)<br \/>\nWednesday, October 27 at 6:00 p.m.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-121603\" src=\"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2021-10-27-electriclight_coverart_mitpress.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2021-10-27-electriclight_coverart_mitpress.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2021-10-27-electriclight_coverart_mitpress-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2021-10-27-electriclight_coverart_mitpress-796x1024.jpg 796w, https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2021-10-27-electriclight_coverart_mitpress-768x988.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2021-10-27-electriclight_coverart_mitpress-1195x1536.jpg 1195w, https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2021-10-27-electriclight_coverart_mitpress-788x1013.jpg 788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><br \/>\nThis will be an in-person event at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 219 S. 6th Street.<\/p>\n<p>Free for Phila SAH members &amp; Athenaeum members, $10 all others<br \/>\nPreregistration required at<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/modern-spaces-of-electric-light-with-sandy-isenstadt-tickets-168334654483<\/p>\n<p>Electric light was more than just a novel way of brightening a room or illuminating a streetscape when it was introduced in the late-nineteenth century. It was a new and uniquely modern kind of building material, generating new sorts of spaces that altered and sometimes eclipsed previously existing spaces. This talk will review several such spaces\u2014from automobile headlights to factory lighting to wartime mandated blackouts\u2014in order to construct an architectural modernism centered on the new perceptual conditions and visual habits that followed widespread electrification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians and the Athenaeum of Philadelphia present MODERN SPACES OF ELECTRIC LIGHT by Sandy Isenstadt, Professor and Chair, History of Modern Architecture, University of Delaware and author of Electric Light: An Architectural History (MIT Press 2018) Wednesday, October 27 at 6:00 p.m. This will be an in-person event at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[50,8],"class_list":["post-121602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-programs","tag-20th-century","tag-architecture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8UMFt-vDk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121604,"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121602\/revisions\/121604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}