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Luminous architecture in the 20th century (1907-1977)
| Location: | France |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2009-05-15 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-02-23 |
| Announcement ID: |
167137 |
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Electric lighting has a history. Based on a series of experiments carried out during the last decades of the 19th century, electric lighting applications have developed alongside built environments throughout the 20th century. Considered as the outcome of an avant-garde technique that promised a radiant future, electric lighting has profoundly changed our night life. Architecture and cities were rapidly taken over by a plethora of lighting applications designed to embellish and improve the comfort of city dwellers, increase factory output and boost commercial activity. A source of beauty and pleasure, and the expression of a form of modernism combining artistic avant-garde and technical progress, electric lighting is primarily praised for its efficiency.
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