Description
Book SynopsisExplores the ecological interrelationship, mediated by steel, of artificial and natural habitats, with a focus on steel’s earlier history in architecture during the long nineteenth century.
Trade Review“Precious Metal draws on scholarship and archives from industrial, architectural, and political discussions to offer a novel reading of an essential phenomenon—the role of material and infrastructure in determining the contours of life. The book is well integrated into a number of familiar and emergent literatures: on architecture and design, material histories, anthropologies of design and environment, and analyses of technospheres and territories.”
—Daniel A. Barber,author of Modern Architecture and Climate: Design Before Air Conditioning
“Precious Metal tells a very engaging tale with broad implications across a number of disciplines, including environmental history, architectural history, German history and culture, and geography. It is likely to serve as a key text across many disciplines and at all levels of a university curriculum.”
—Kathleen James-Chakraborty,author of Modernism as Memory: Building Identity in the Federal Republic of Germany
