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Through the healing glass : shaping the modern body through glass architecture, 1925-35
- Title
- Through the healing glass : shaping the modern body through glass architecture, 1925-35 / John Stanislav Sadar.
- Author
- Sadar, John Stanislav
- Publication
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
- ©2016
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | NA2542.4 .S23 2016 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 233 pages; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Routledge research in architecture
- Uniform Title
- Routledge research in architecture.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781138837805
- 1138837806
- 9781315734989 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015035513
- 40025919373
- OCLC
- ocn921310774
- 921310774
- SCSB-5847394
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries