Transition and Consistency

As noted in the lecture, one of the failings of both modernism and post-modernism is a failing to relate the external facade with the internal program.  In the case of post-modernism, there is the additional circumstance of varied programs congesting within one building with nothing to mediate them save the floor planes which divide them, as exemplified by the Downtown Athletic Club.  In such cases the singular relationship shared by each program is the means by which they are accessed, the elevators.  In addition to being the technological marvel which made large story buildings feasible to all users, elevators have also take on the equally critical role of transitional space.  In both a physical and metaphorical sense, the elevator transitions users from one program to the next. Furthermore, in a building full of change, the elevator is a constant; constant of space, constant of atmosphere, and constant of location.  Would it not then be apt to suppose it is the elevator which remains stationary, and the building which moves around it?