The age of glass : a cultural history of glass in modern and contemporary architecture / Stephen Eskilson.
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TextPublisher: London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 229 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781474278386
- 1474278388
- Glass construction -- History -- 20th century
- Glass construction -- History -- 21st century
- Architecture and society -- History -- 20th century
- Architecture and society -- History -- 21st century
- Construction en verre -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Construction en verre -- Histoire -- 21e siècle
- Architecture et société -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Architecture et société -- Histoire -- 21e siècle
- History of architecture
- Architectural structure & design
- Architecture
- ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Public, Commercial & Industrial
- ARCHITECTURE -- Project Management
- ARCHITECTURE -- Security Design
- Architecture and society
- Glass construction
- 1900-2099
- 721/.04496 23
- NA4140 .E85 2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The age of glass -- Stained glass -- Daylight -- Glass visions -- Structural glass -- Shade -- The politics of glass.
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.
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