A layered cultural history of the origins, impacts and material legacy of glass
This layered, intertextual, cultural history examines humankind's relationship with glass and the ways in which glass has transformed society and the constructed world.
Remaking the Crust of the Earth considers glass in its myriad guises: from the modular prefabrication of Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace to the utopian optimism of Paul Scheerbart's Glasarchitektur, both of which paved a way for for modernism, the curtain wall and the 20th-century glass house. Traversing time and space, the book includes archival material (in particular the encyclopaedic 1937 publication Glass in Architecture and Decoration by Raymond McGrath and A.C. Frost); excerpts from the film Remaking the Crust of the Earth; a series of restaged photographic glass tests conducted by Gavin Murphy and Louis Haugh; essays by Marysia Wieckiewicz-Carroll and Chris Fite-Wassilak; and reproductions from the Raymond McGrath collection in the Irish Architectural Archive.
Edited by:
Gavin Murphy, Chris Fite-Wassilak, Marysia Wieckiewicz-Carroll Imprint: Set Margins' publications Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 206mm,
Spine: 10mm
Weight: 272g ISBN:9789083318837 ISBN 10: 9083318834 Pages: 56 Publication Date:01 April 2023 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
