Description

The aim of the 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/21st 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. It is notable — to quote just one aspect of the study — that many modern glass buildings have been compared to a crystal . This is the material with which we associate concepts such as purity, transparency, and order. We have thus also found a symbol for clarity and translucency in architecture. One key objective of the study is to demonstrate that this trend has been driven by no means only by a functionalist, pragmatic, or physical motivation but that, as in past epochs, the opening up of architecture reflects elementary desires of humankind: these are, first of all, psychological, aesthetic and artistic desires, the wish to overcome gravity as far as possible and, last but not least, the liberation of architecture and the attempt to resolve the heteronomy of indoors and outdoors . Many statements have suggested that this touches even on the borders of the irrational and the metaphysical. The study should therefore also contribute to a fresh debate on the boundaries of architecture and, most importantly, should serve as a plea to allow architecture to remain open, free, light, and transparent even in the future.

Langue

en

Version

Couverture rigide

Date de sortie initiale

09 janvier 2013

Nombre de pages

256

Illustrations

Avec illustrations

Personnes impliquées

Auteur principal

Gunther Feuerstein

Deuxième auteur

Feuerstein G

Editeur principal

Edition Axel Menges

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Hauteur de l’emballage

292 mm

Hauteur du produit

22 mm

Largeur d’emballage

242 mm

Largeur du produit

243 mm

Livre d‘étude

Non

Longueur d’emballage

292 mm

Longueur du produit

292 mm

Poids de l’emballage

1388 g

Police de caractères extra large

Non

EAN

EAN

9783936681550

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Opérateur économique responsable dans l’UE

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Architecture

Conception architecturale

Histoire de l’architecture

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Langue

Anglais

Type de livre

Hardcover