| Descript |
1 online resource (xiii, 229 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The age of glass -- Stained glass -- Daylight -- Glass visions -- Structural glass -- Shade -- The politics of glass. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Glass construction -- History -- 20th century.
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Glass construction -- History -- 21st century.
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Architecture and society -- History -- 20th century.
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Architecture and society -- History -- 21st century.
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History of architecture. |
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Architectural structure & design. |
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Architecture. |
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ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Public, Commercial & Industrial. |
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ARCHITECTURE -- Project Management. |
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ARCHITECTURE -- Security Design. |
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Architecture and society. (OCoLC)fst00813574 |
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Glass construction. (OCoLC)fst00943109 |
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1900-2099 |
| ISBN |
9781474278386 (electronic book) |
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1474278388 (electronic book) |
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9781474278379 |
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147427837X |
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9781474278362 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9781474278355 |
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