{"product_id":"the-age-of-glass-9781474278355","title":"The Age of Glass","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGlass 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Glass\u003c\/i\u003e 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. A wide range of topics are explored  from the tension between expressionism and functional\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface Chapter 1 - The Age of Glass Chapter 2 - Stained Glass Chapter 3 - Daylight Chapter 4 - Glass Visions Chapter 5 - Structural Glass Chapter 6 - Shade Chapter 7 - The Politics of Glass  References Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408816578903,"sku":"9781474278355","price":24.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474278355.jpg?v=1730504316","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-age-of-glass-9781474278355","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}