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Consumption and efficiency in the 'city within a city': Commercial hotel architecture and the emergence of modern American culture, 1890--1930.

机译：“城市中的城市”中的消费和效率：商业酒店建筑和现代美国文化的兴起，1890--1930年。

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Reinvention of the hotel building type in the early twentieth century created structures that embodied the complexities and contradictions of the emerging modern culture. This study utilizes a detailed examination of urban commercial hotels from the 1890s to 1930 to demonstrate the links between commercial architecture and cultural ideals regarding consumption, efficiency, and leisure. Influential hotels built in New York, Chicago and other cities, many operated by pioneering hotel chains such as Hotels Statler, Bowman-Biltmore, or United, indicate the urban hotel's pivotal role in promoting corporate mass consumption. The emerging consumer culture promoted the growth of hotels while the ballrooms, restaurants, and guest rooms of commercial hotels provided a significant venue for consumption and travel. The latest structural and mechanical technologies made the buildings physically possible, and in addition, modern amenities raised consumer expectations of comfort and safety. In order to create hotels catering to middle-class mass consumption, innovative hotel managers embraced an approach termed here “scientific service.” “Scientific service” represents attempts to reconcile efficient modern business methods with the tradition of personal service. Relationships between hotel managers, architects, engineers, and equipment specialists provide evidence of both the collective effort required to create the complex modern hotel and the new importance of design professionals with specialized expertise in hotels. This study also makes the case for looking at building form and aesthetics in the context of use by guests and workers. This approach moves beyond the phrase “form follows function” to view the hotel as a site of cultural negotiation involving changing gender relations, class conflict, and corporate dominance. Early twentieth century commercial hotels exhibited a corporate vision of uniform management and consumer control well before the advent of standardized franchise hotel architecture. The “city within a city” urban commercial hotel of the early twentieth century signifies both continuity with the hotel industry of today and a seminal moment in the emergence of our modern consumer culture as expressed through architecture.
机译：二十世纪初对酒店建筑类型的重新发明创造了体现新兴现代文化复杂性和矛盾性的结构。这项研究对1890年代至1930年间的城市商业酒店进行了详细研究，以证明商业建筑与关于消费，效率和休闲的文化理想之间的联系。在纽约，芝加哥和其他城市建造的有影响力的酒店，其中许多都是由开创性的连锁酒店运营的，例如Hotel Statler，Bowman-Biltmore或United，表明了城市酒店在促进企业大众消费方面的关键作用。新兴的消费文化促进了酒店的发展，而商业酒店的宴会厅，餐厅和客房则为消费和旅行提供了重要场所。最新的结构和机械技术使建筑物在物理上成为可能，此外，现代化的便利设施还提高了消费者对舒适性和安全性的期望。为了创建适合中产阶级大众消费的酒店，富有创新精神的酒店管理者接受了一种称为“科学服务”的方法。 “科学服务”表示尝试将有效的现代商业方法与个人服务的传统相协调。酒店经理，建筑师，工程师和设备专家之间的关系提供了创建复杂的现代酒店所需的集体努力，以及具有酒店专业知识的设计专业人员的新重要性的证据。这项研究还提供了在客人和工人使用的背景下审视建筑形式和美学的案例。这种方法超越了“形式跟随功能”这一短语，将酒店视为文化谈判的场所，涉及改变性别关系，阶级冲突和企业主导地位。二十世纪初，商业酒店在统一特许经营酒店建筑出现之前就展现出统一管理和消费者控制的企业愿景。二十世纪初的“城市中的城市”城市商业酒店既标志着当今酒店业的连续性，又标志着通过建筑业表达的现代消费文化的兴起。

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  • 作者

    Davidson, Lisa Pfueller.;

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    The George Washington University.;

  • 授予单位 The George Washington University.;
  • 学科 American Studies.; History United States.; Art History.; Architecture.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2003
  • 页码 p.4357
  • 总页数 334
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 F17;
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