Deborah Ascher Barnstone

The Transparent State

Architecture and Politics in Postwar Germany

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Do open societies need transparent architecture? Does transparent architecture help make an open society? This book examines German culture's on-going relationship with Transparency, a relationship which culminates in the new Reichstag building.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• UK edition
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 162mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780415700191
• ISBN-10: 0415700191
• Artikelnr.: 22006071

Autorenporträt

Deborah Ascher Barnstone is Associate Professor of Architectural Design at Washington State University, and also an architect and designer. Her work includes a special issue of the Journal of Architecture Education dedicated to transparency in Twentieth-Century architecture (with Anthony Vidler), and she has chaired sessions addressing transparency and approaches to architectural modernism at two annual meetings of the Association of Art Historians. Her design practice has explored both spatial and material transparency, and she has taught architectural design in Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Transparency Ideology 2. Transparency in
German Architecture before and after the War 3. The Quest for an Open
Society 4. Looking in the Mirror: Transparency after 1989 5. A Metaphor for
the New Germany 6. House of Openness, Architecture of Encounter 7. Coming
to Terms with the Past: Transparency in Norman Foster's Reichstag 8. Why
Transparency? Appendix 1: Biography of Hans Schwippert Appendix 2:
Biography of Günter Behnisch Appendix 3: Biography of Sir Norman Foster
Appendix 4: Glück und Glas, Hans Schwippert Bibliography