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Author Eskilson, Stephen, 1964- author.

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

Publication Info. London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 229 pages)
text file
Bibliography 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 eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Glass construction -- History -- 20th century.
Glass construction.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Glass construction -- History -- 21st century.
Architecture and society -- History -- 20th century.
Architecture and society.
Architecture and society -- History -- 21st century.
Chronological Term 1900-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Eskilson, Stephen, 1964- Age of glass. London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018 9781474278362 (DLC) 2017028111 (OCoLC)974445339
ISBN 9781474278386 (electronic book)
1474278388 (electronic book)
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