Ciudad sin cocina : el Waldorf Astoria, apartamentos con servicios domésticos colectivos en Nueva York, 1871-1929
The PhD dissertation is focused on the study of the hotel Waldorf Astoria of New York, outlining from this paradigmatic case study an overview of the history of new housing typologies with collective housekeeping services which appeared in New York on the verge of the 20th century. This dissertation...
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| Tipo de documento: | tese |
| Data de publicação: | 2014 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositório: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | espanhol |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/95471 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/95471 https://dx.doi.org/10.5821/dissertation-2117-95471 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Arquitectes -- Estats Units d'Amèrica Hotels -- Edificis -- Nova York (Estat) -- Nova York) Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Arquitectura |
| Resumo: | The PhD dissertation is focused on the study of the hotel Waldorf Astoria of New York, outlining from this paradigmatic case study an overview of the history of new housing typologies with collective housekeeping services which appeared in New York on the verge of the 20th century. This dissertation is divided in four scenes and four chapters and, although the text is organized chronologically and follows a linear deployment, each of the chapters and scenes have at the same time a individual character which allows them to work as independent micro-stories . The scenes always refer to written or visual stories about Waldorf Astoria hotel and act at the same time as an introduction and as a blow-up, an illustrative image of each of the following chapters. The Waldorf Astoria hotel works as mcguffin which allows to draw together the whole set and permits at the same time a cross-reading. The first chapter covers the early days of the typology, from its origins until the First World War, stressing a special emphasis on the historical context in order to understand the reasons that influenced both the elimination of kitchens from homes and the subsequent creation of centralized domestic services. The second chapter shows a number of projects that attempted to extend these earlier experiments of kitchenless houses into the urban sphere, analyzing thus the apparition of ex novo cities organized around the collectivization of domestic services in the architectonical agenda. The third chapter focuses on the apparition of small kitchens, originally linked to a central kitchen, which influenced the modern definition of the posterior minimum European kitchens, including the Frankfurt's kitchen. Finally the fourth chapter focuses on the period of the twenties, and describes how the heyday of the typology was deeply rooted into a political and legislative specific context that ends along with the economic crash of'29, conditioning its decline over the decade of the thirties. |
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