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The Age of Glass: A Cultural History of Glass in Modern and Contemporary Architecture

Autor Stephen Eskilson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 feb 2018
Glass has long transformed the architectural landscape. From the Crystal Palace through to the towering glass spires of today's cities, few architectural materials have held such immense symbolic resonance in the modern era. The Age of Glass explores the cultural and technological ascension of glass in modern and contemporary architecture. Showing how the use of glass is driven as much by changing cultural concerns as it is by developments in technology and style, it traces the richly interwoven material, symbolic, and ideological histories of glass to show how it has produced and dispersed meaning in architecture over the past two centuries. The book's chapters focus on key moments within the modern history of architecture, moments when glass came to the forefront of architectural thought, and which illustrate how glass has been used at different times to project different cultural ideas. A wide range of topics are explored - from the tension between expressionism and functionalism, to the persistent theme of glass and social class, to how glass has reflected political ideas from Nazism through to today's global consumer capitalism. The book also grapples with current arguments about sustainability, while, taking into account the advent of digital LED screens and 'smart glass', offering new cultural perspectives on the future and asking what glass architecture will signify in the digital age. Combining close readings of buildings with insights drawn from research, plus good storytelling and strong contemporary relevance, The Age of Glass offers a fascinating new perspective on modern architecture and culture.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781474278355
ISBN-10: 1474278353
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: 80 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

The first detailed cultural history of glass in architecture. All previous books about glass have focused solely on the technological or stylistic histories - our book provides the complete picture, with equal weight given to culture as much as technology and style

Notă biografică

Stephen Eskilson is Professor of Art History at Eastern Illinois University. He is coauthor of Frames of Reference: Art History and the World (2003) and author of Graphic Design a New History (2007 & 2012).

Cuprins

PrefaceChapter 1 - The Age of GlassChapter 2 - Stained GlassChapter 3 - DaylightChapter 4 - Glass VisionsChapter 5 - Structural GlassChapter 6 - ShadeChapter 7 - The Politics of GlassReferencesIndex