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Remaking the crust of the earth

Title
Remaking the crust of the earth / Gavin Murphy et al.
Publication
  • Eindhoven : Set Margins', [2023]
  • ©2023

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Additional Authors
  • Murphy, Gavin, 1973-
  • Irish Architectural Archive, host institution.
Description
55 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm.
Summary
"Presents a layered, intertextual, cultural history which examines the ways in which glass has transformed society -- how humans situate themselves within the environment, and how we view the world. Through the unlikely accident of its discovery to its present day ubiquity, it considers glass in its myriad guises: from the modular prefabrication of Joseph Paxton's 'Crystal Palace' to the optimism of Paul Scheerbart's Glasarchitektur, both of which in their own way lay a path for modernism, the curtain wall, and the 20th century 'glass house'. Traversing time and space, this book draws on archival material (and in particular the encyclopaedic 1937 publication 'Glass in Architecture and Decoration' by Raymond McGrath & A.C. Frost) to explore previous and unfulfilled stages of material history, revealing alternatives which belie an 'inevitable' contemporary (and its futures)"--
Series Statement
Set margins' ; #21
Subject
  • Murphy, Gavin, 1973- > Exhibitions
  • Video art > Exhibitions
  • Art and architecture > Exhibitions
  • Glass in art > Exhibitions
  • Glass construction > Social aspects > Exhibitions
  • Art and architecture
  • Video art
  • Glass in art
  • Glass construction
  • Social aspects
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Video art.
Note
  • On the occasion of an exhibition held at Irish Architectural Archive, March - April 2023.
  • "The publication features excerpts from the film Remaking the Crust of the Earth, a series of restaged photographic glass tests conducted by Gavin Murphy and Louis Haugh, [...] alongside reproductions from the Raymond McGrath collection in the Irish Architectural Archive"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
I. Extracts -- 2. Materials. The glass paradise : the future that did not happen / Marysia Wieckiewicz-Carroll ; A hovering notion of opacity / Chris Fite-Wassilak ; Illustrating the concealing power of glasses.
Call Number
JQF 23-1318
ISBN
  • 9789083318837
  • 9083318834
LCCN
9789083318837
OCLC
1390983601
Title
Remaking the crust of the earth / Gavin Murphy et al.
Publisher
Eindhoven : Set Margins', [2023]
Copyright Date
©2023
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Set margins' ; #21
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Murphy, Gavin, 1973-
Irish Architectural Archive, host institution.
Other Standard Identifier
9789083318837
Research Call Number
JQF 23-1318
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