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238 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 30 cm |
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Contents note continued: 4.4.Galleries, shopping arcades -- 4.5.Railway stations -- 4.6.Halls -- 5.Turn of the 20th-century pioneers -- 5.1.Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Department stores -- 5.2.Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) -- 5.3.Hendrik Petrus Berlage. Otto Wagner -- 5.4.Walter Gropius. Bauhaus -- 5.5.Expressionism. Futurism. Constructivism -- 5.6.Glass dreams -- 5.7."Open space": inner openness -- 5.7.1.Frank Lloyd Wright -- 5.7.2.Adolf Loos -- 5.7.3.Le Corbusier -- 6."Open space" - Modern art -- 6.1.Painting -- 6.2.Sculpture. Object -- 6.3.Stage. Screen -- 6.4.Latest trends -- 7."Open space" - infinite space -- 7.1.Rudolph M. Schindler. Richard Neutra -- 7.2.Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -- 7.2.1.The towers -- 7.2.2.Fluctuating space -- 7.2.3.The containers -- 7.3.De Stijl -- 7.4.Friedrich (Frederick) Kiesler -- 8.Visionary architecture 1950-80 -- 8.1.Richard Buckminster Fuller -- 8.2.London. Vienna -- 8.3.Germany. France -- 9.High-tech transparency -- 9.1.The glass tower -- |
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Contents note continued: 9.2.The glass container -- 9.3.The glass shrine -- 9.4.The glass "villa" -- 9.5.The glass temple -- 9.6.Lift off. Fly. Disappear -- 10.Structure. Backdrop -- 10.1.America -- 10.2.Europe -- 10.3.Deconstructivism. Topple. Overthrow -- 11.Countercurrents -- 11.1.Open - close -- 11.2.Covered courtyards and canopies -- 11.3.Concealment: art -- 12.Illumination -- 12.1.Illumination: before electricity -- 12.2.Illumination: electric light -- 12.3.Brightly lit facades - tranparency - interior glow - media facades -- 12.4.Virtual reality. Cyberspace -- 13.Conclusion |
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Machine generated contents note: 1.The notion of space -- 1.1.The notion of space: a spectrum -- 1.2.The concept of space in architecture -- 1.3.Space as place: topos -- 1.4.Spatial "effects" -- 1.5.Space and society -- 2.Closed - open -- 2.1."Hermetic" space -- 2.2.The opening -- 2.3."Open space" -- 2.4.Architectural space and transparency -- 3.Historical aspects -- 3.1.Classical Antiquity, Byzantium -- 3.2.The Middle Ages -- 3.3.The Renaissance, the Baroque in Italy -- 3.3.1.Ilusionism. Spatial frescoes -- 3.3.2.Painting -- 3.3.3.The phenomenon of Annunciations -- 3.3.4.The "protomodern" period in Great Britain -- 3.4.Baroque, Rococo, Classicism -- 3.4.1.The "open" dome and ceiling. Illusion -- 3.4.2.The "open" wall -- 3.4.3.Real opening. Interior open space -- 3.4.4.The large window -- 3.4.5.The mirror -- 3.4.6.Orangeries -- 4.Big glass: transparency in the 19th century -- 4.1.Plant houses before Paxton -- 4.2.Joseph Paxton -- 4.3.Plant houses after Paxton -- |
| Summary |
The aim of this study is to analyse and describe in detail one of the most important trends in architecture in the 19th and 20th centuries: the evolution leading from the closed, hermetic spaces of the early cultures and the Middle Ages to the 'open space' and transparency of the 19th and 20th/20st centuries. Historically, the focus is on the 'diaphanous' space of the Gothic cathedral, the opening of the late-Baroque dome towards the sky, the transparency of exhibition halls and hothouses in the 19th century, and the glass dreams of the early 20th century. The steel-and-glass technology of the past one hundred years has permitted even more transparency, openness, and dematerialisation on a scale never seen before |
| Notes |
"Published with support of the Österreichisches Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur and by the group U.M.R.A.U.M. - Urbanisation, Medien, Research, Architektur, Utopie, Metropole."--Title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-234) and index |
| Subject |
Architectural design.
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Space (Architecture)
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Spatial behavior.
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| Author |
Mueller, Ilze Kl̦avin̦a, translator
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Austria. Österreichisches Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur, sponsor
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| ISBN |
9783936681550 (hbk.) |
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