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• Title:The age of glass : a cultural history of glass in modern and contemporary architecture / Stephen Eskilson.
  
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• Author/Creator:Eskilson, Stephen, 1964- author.
  
• Published/Created:London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
  ©2018
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NA4140 .E85 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Glass construction--History--20th century.
  Glass construction--History--21st century.
  Architecture and society--History--20th century.
  Architecture and society--History--21st century.
  
• Description:xiii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  
• 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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781474278362 hardcover ; alkaline paper
  1474278361 hardcover ; alkaline paper
  9781474278355 paperback ; alkaline paper
  1474278353 paperback ; alkaline paper
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. dawning of the age of glass
  2. Stained glass and modernity
  3. Daylight rules the modern building
  4. Glass visions
  5. Structural glass
  6. Shade
  7. politics of glass.