John Stanislav SadarThrough the Healing Glass
Shaping the Modern Body through Glass Architecture, 1925-35
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.
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
