Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition"This new edition ensures that the book will continue to be internationally acknowledged as the standard work on the development of modern architecture." -Walter Gropius |
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... glass surfaces set in unbroken series . A glass shelter is carried in a continu- ous line along the whole front of the store above the show windows and reinforces the impression produced by the areas of glass they contain . built out ...
... glass wall at the front was important for the future . It was not until a half- century later , in the Bauhaus at Dessau , that the additional courage was found to juxtapose glass , iron , and concrete with- out any auxiliary pretexts ...
... glass curtain is brought into abrupt juxtaposition with the horizontal ribbons of white curtain wall at the top and bottom of the building . An aerial photograph shows them plainly for what they are : mere ribbons , support- ing nothing ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 2 |
TRANSITORY AND CONSTITUENT FACTS | 17 |
PERSPECTIVE | 30 |
Copyright | |
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