The Old Man, The Receptionist, And the Elevator
The Old Man, The Receptionist, And the Elevator from Dov Goldring
The Old Man, The Receptionist, And the Elevator

In this essay, the author tells an anecdote about an old Ethiopian man’s first visual encounter with an elevator in a lobby of a hotel. The author brings forward views from Remment Lucas Koolhaas about the elevator and its implications on the language or rather the lack of language within architecture. The author then analyses the variant interpretations of the receptionist, old Ethiopian man and the architect in relation to the elevator while employing theories from Richard Wollheim and Hans-Goerg Gadamer. The author establishes that the only pure hermeneutic view of the elevator is that of the old Ethiopian man, but such a view will ultimately be short lived.

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The Old Man, The Receptionist, And the Elevator

In this essay, the author tells an anecdote about an old Ethiopian man’s first visual encounter with an elevator in a lobby of a hotel. The author brings forward views from Remment Lucas Koolhaas about the elevator and its implications on the language or rather the lack of language within architecture. The author then analyses the variant interpretations of the receptionist, old Ethiopian man and the architect in relation to the elevator while employing theories from Richard Wollheim and Hans-Goerg Gadamer. The author establishes that the only pure hermeneutic view of the elevator is that of the old Ethiopian man, but such a view will ultimately be short lived.

Dov Goldring
Architect Cape Town, South Africa