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Transparency - The Material History of an Idea (Hardcover)
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Transparency - The Material History of an Idea (Hardcover)
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A wide-ranging illustrated history of transparency as told through
the evolution of the glass window Transparency is a mantra of our
day. It is key to the Western understanding of a liberal society.
We expect transparency from, for instance, political institutions,
corporations, and the media. But how did it become such a
powerful-and global-idea? From ancient glass to Apple's corporate
headquarters, this book is the first to probe how Western people
have experienced, conceptualized, and evaluated transparency.
Daniel Jutte argues that the experience of transparency has been
inextricably linked to one element of Western architecture: the
glass window. Windows are meant to be unnoticed. Yet a historical
perspective reveals the role that glass has played in shaping how
we see and interpret the world. A seemingly "pure" material, glass
has been endowed, throughout history, with political, social, and
cultural meaning, in manifold and sometimes conflicting ways. At
the same time, Jutte raises questions about the future of vitreous
transparency-its costs in terms of visual privacy but also its
ecological price tag in an age of accelerating climate change.
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