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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

9. ‘Skyscraper Primitives’: Futurity and Primordial Time in New York City, 1904–1932

Author : Steven Nardi

Published in: Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Nardi’s chapter applies the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas’s concept of an ‘architectural Big Bang’ to frame the emergence of the skyscraper as a central trope for time and space in the literary manifestos of the 1910s and 1920s. Koolhaas argues that the new architectural technologies emerging at the turn of the century in New York revolutionized concepts of space and time; Nardi traces similar ideas among avant-garde in New York, where writers such as Amy Lowell, Waldo Frank, and Gorham Munson, explored the technological space of the immense architectural interior as a force that contained all of time and could undo time as well as mark the progress and development of urban ambitions.

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Metadata
Title
‘Skyscraper Primitives’: Futurity and Primordial Time in New York City, 1904–1932
Author
Steven Nardi
Copyright Year
2021
Book
Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-55960-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-55961-8

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55961-8_9