Through the Healing Glass: Shaping the Modern Body through Glass Architecture, 1925-35
Author:   John Sadar (Monash University, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781138837805


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   16 February 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   John Sadar (Monash University, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.612kg
ISBN:  

9781138837805


ISBN 10:   1138837806
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   16 February 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"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"

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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.

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