In computer and cell phone screens, as in 19th-century architecture, glass employs a frame to show a specific picture, and keeps us at a distance from what lies behind it. Glass\u27 dichotomies in technology (transparency and reflection, isolation and closeness) have become stronger metaphors for our experience with technology. This paper will look at the similarities between the language and metaphors created by glass in 19th-century architecture and 21st century technology, and glass\u27 role in connecting us to and alienating us from the world \u27outside.\u27 In so doing, the role of glass in the imagination and its impact on modernity will be explored through the lens of Charles Baudelaire\u27s Paris Spleen and Walter Benjamin\u27s Arc...
This paper is an experimental exercise that thinks through the materiality of an ancient glass flask...
At the turn of the twentieth century, so-called “glass diseases” seriously affected the use of scien...
Alluding to the Theatrum Catoptricum described by Athanasius Kircher in Ars Magna Lucis at Umbrae (1...
In computer and cell phone screens, as in 19th-century architecture, glass employs a frame to show a...
After transparency takes a critical position regarding the conceptualization of glass in modern and ...
This dissertation investigates the appropriation of mass-produced glass into architectural discourse...
Glass has a long history of manipulating light. Though lost to digital media and discernible in expe...
Glass, a product of human invention, became synonymous with transparency early in the Roman imperial...
The article studies the ambivalent, if not antithetical, qualities of glass – both a substance and a...
This book presents a history of the development of glass. Chapters discuss the nature of the materia...
Transparent glass has over years managed to infiltrate every part of modernsociety, changing both hu...
Art glass has a privileged position in the architectural space. This is due to its basic property of...
This paper considers some examples of creative glass practice and research at the ‘overlap’ of two d...
The presentation explores the emerging and expanding relationship between glass making as a craft fo...
Glass has fundamentally changed our cultural landscape over the last one hundred years. Yet, the aes...
This paper is an experimental exercise that thinks through the materiality of an ancient glass flask...
At the turn of the twentieth century, so-called “glass diseases” seriously affected the use of scien...
Alluding to the Theatrum Catoptricum described by Athanasius Kircher in Ars Magna Lucis at Umbrae (1...
In computer and cell phone screens, as in 19th-century architecture, glass employs a frame to show a...
After transparency takes a critical position regarding the conceptualization of glass in modern and ...
This dissertation investigates the appropriation of mass-produced glass into architectural discourse...
Glass has a long history of manipulating light. Though lost to digital media and discernible in expe...
Glass, a product of human invention, became synonymous with transparency early in the Roman imperial...
The article studies the ambivalent, if not antithetical, qualities of glass – both a substance and a...
This book presents a history of the development of glass. Chapters discuss the nature of the materia...
Transparent glass has over years managed to infiltrate every part of modernsociety, changing both hu...
Art glass has a privileged position in the architectural space. This is due to its basic property of...
This paper considers some examples of creative glass practice and research at the ‘overlap’ of two d...
The presentation explores the emerging and expanding relationship between glass making as a craft fo...
Glass has fundamentally changed our cultural landscape over the last one hundred years. Yet, the aes...
This paper is an experimental exercise that thinks through the materiality of an ancient glass flask...
At the turn of the twentieth century, so-called “glass diseases” seriously affected the use of scien...
Alluding to the Theatrum Catoptricum described by Athanasius Kircher in Ars Magna Lucis at Umbrae (1...