Clear Glass: Creating New Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9783037680032 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 256 str.

Chris Van Uffelen

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Glass stands for openness and transparency. In contemporary glass architecture these associations are utilized in a subtle and highly intentional way. Some buildings appear low-key and reduced to express elegance and seriousness, other provide deep insights to set a stage for profiling and a vivid exchange between inside and outside. In either case innovative glass buildings generate unexpected perspectives, individual communication channels and a temporary feeling of freedom in an actually closed spatiality. In this title about 60 projects from

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Chris van Uffelen ist Kunsthistoriker und Autor mit den Schwerpunkten Architektur des Mittelalters, modernes und zeitgenössisches Bauen sowie Kunst der frühen Neuzeit und der Gegenwart. Für diverse Publikums- und Fachlexika verfasste er zahlreiche Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte.