Precious Metal - German Steel, Modernity, and Ecology

Explores 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.

About the author

Peter H. Christensen is Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester. He is the author of the award-winning Germany and the Ottoman Railways: Art, Empire, and Infrastructure.

Summary

Explores 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.

Product details

• Authors: Peter H. Christensen, Peter H. (University of Rochester) Christensen
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.09.2022
• EAN: 9780271092317
• ISBN: 978-0-271-09231-7
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 254 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 1179 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Landscape art & architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, ARCHITECTURE / Methods & Materials, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), Modernism, History of Architecture, Landscape architecture and design