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Blurred Transparencies in Contemporary Glass Architecture - Material, Culture, and Technology (Paperback)
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Blurred Transparencies in Contemporary Glass Architecture - Material, Culture, and Technology (Paperback)
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Blurred Transparencies in Contemporary Glass Architecture brings to
light complex readings of transparent glass through close
observations of six pivotal works of architecture. Written from the
perspectives of a practitioner, the six essays challenge
assumptions about fragility and visual transparency of glass. A
material imbued with idealism and utopic vision, glass has captured
architects' imagination, and glass's fragility and difficulties in
thermal control continue to present technical challenges. In recent
decades, architecture has witnessed an emergence of technological
advancements in chemical coating, structural engineering, and
fabrication methods that resulted in new kinds of glass
transparencies. Buildings examined in the book include a sanatorium
with expansive windows delivering light and air to recovering
tuberculosis patients, a pavilion with a crystal clear glass plenum
circulating air for heating and cooling, a glass monument
symbolizing the screen of personal devices that shortened the
distance between machines and humans, and a glass building
symbolizing the social and material intertwining in the glass
ceiling metaphor. Connecting material glass to broader cultural and
social contexts, Blurred Transparencies in Contemporary Glass
Architecture enlightens students and practitioners of architecture
as well as the general public with interest in design. The author
demonstrates how glass is rarely crystal clear but is blurred both
materially and metaphysically, revealing complex readings of ideas
for which glass continues to stand.
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