Through the Healing Glass - Shaping the Modern Body Through Glass Architecture, 1925-35

A history of the promotion of links between glass, light and health in architecture.

List of contents

1. The Healthful Ambience of Vitaglass: Light, Glass and the Curative Environment, Part I: Environments, 2. The Scientific Evaluation of Light, from Newton to Ritter to Maxwell, 3. Revolutions in Glass, 4. Specific Definitions and Visualisations of Disease, 5. Towards a Curative Environment, Part II: Bodies, 6. Needy Bodies: Fleetwood Pritchard and the "Vita" Glass Marketing Board, 7. Magical Bodies: The Promise of Weather Control, Labour-savings, Transparency, 8.Normal Bodies: Scientific Management, Ideal Childhood, and Biological Processes, 9. Short-Lived Bodies: The Lifespan of the Therapeutic Environments of the 1920s and 1930s, 10. Shaping Bodies: Marketing Material Performance

About the author

John Stanislav Sadar is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Monash University, Australia, and a partner of Little Wonder design studio. Having studied architecture at McGill University, Aalto University and the University of Pennsylvania, he is interested in the way our technological artefacts mediate the relationship between our bodies and the environment.

Summary

A history of the promotion of links between glass, light and health in architecture.

Product details

• Authors: John Sadar
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.10.2017
• EAN: 9781138573437
• ISBN: 978-1-138-57343-7
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Routledge Research in Architecture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Architecture, Architectural structure & design, ARCHITECTURE / General, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, History of Architecture, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Theory of architecture, Architectural structure and design