260 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
In the late nineteenth century, the urban department store arose as a built artifact and as a social institution in the United States. While the physical building type is the foundation of this comprehensive architectural study, Louisa Iarocci reaches beyond the analysis of the bricks and mortar to reconsider how the ’spaces of selling’ were culturally-produced spaces, as well as the product of... Read more
Contents: Introduction: the spaces of selling. Part One The City and the Store, 1850-1880: The commercial metropolis; Street architecture and the mercantile house. Part Two The Department Store, 1880-1910: The factory and the fair; The palatial home: constructing a modern typology. Part Three Utopias and Distopias, 1900-1930: The world a department store; Shopping: across the sales counter. Conclusion: the titan city and the budget house. Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Louisa Iarocci is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
