The Transparent State: Architecture and Politics in Postwar Germany

ISBN-13: 9780415700191 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 296 str.

Deborah Ascher Barnstone; Deborah Ascher Barnstone; Barnston Ascher

Opis

'The Transparent State' studies how the idea of transparency, a metaphor borrowed from political thought became an analogy for democratic architecture in postwar West Germany & led to the prevailing belief that transparency in governmental buildings can be equated with openness, accessibility & greater democracy.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.