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Through the healing glass : shaping the modern body through glass architecture, 1925-35 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sadar, John Stanislav (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
Series:Routledge research in architecture.
Subjects:
Architecture > Human factors > History > 20th century.
Glass construction > Health aspects.
Architectural glass > Marketing > History > 20th century.
Architecture and society > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • The Healthful Ambience of Vitaglass : Light, Glass and the Curative Environment
  • Environments. The Scientific Evaluation of Light, from Newton to Ritter to Maxwell
  • Revolutions in Glass
  • Specific Definitions and Visualisations of Disease
  • Towards a Curative Environment
  • Bodies. Needy Bodies : Fleetwood Pritchard and the "Vita" Glass Marketing Board
  • Magical Bodies : The Promise of Weather Control, Labour-savings, Transparency
  • Normal Bodies : Scientific Management, Ideal Childhood, and Biological Processes
  • Short-Lived Bodies : The Lifespan of the Therapeutic Environments of the 1920s and 1930s
  • Shaping Bodies : Marketing Material Performance.