The age of glass : a cultural history of glass in modern and contemporary architecture / Stephen Eskilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eskilson, Stephen, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Glass construction--History--20th century.

Glass construction.

Glass construction--History--21st century.

Architecture and society--History--20th century.

Architecture and society.

History.

Architecture and society--History--21st century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 229 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.

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.

Contents:

The age of glass

Stained glass

Daylight

Glass visions

Structural glass

Shade

The politics of glass.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Eskilson, Stephen, 1964- Age of glass.

ISBN:

9781474278362

1474278361

9781474278355

1474278353

OCLC:

974445339