complex lives leads naturally to a new balance among our 
technologically extended faculties, resulting in a new look and a 
new “outlook” with new motivations and inventions.

     In the twentieth century we are familiar with the changes 
in housing and architecture that are the result of electric 
energy made available to elevators. The same energy devoted 
to lighting has altered our living and working spaces even more 
radically. Electric light abolished the divisions of night and day, 
of inner and outer, and of the subterranean and the terrestrial. 
It altered every consideration of space for work and production 
as much as the other electric media had altered the space-time 
experience of society. All this is reasonably familiar. Less 
familiar is the architectural revolution made possible by 
improvements in heating centuries ago. With the mining of coal 
on a large scale in the Renaissance, inhabitants in the colder