Verlag: The MIT Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 0262692961 ISBN 13: 9780262692960
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN 0262692961. Trade Paperback. English translation of 1914 German original. TIGHT SOUND READING COPY ONLY DUE TO underlining throughout; otherwise average wear. No Signature.
Verlag: Mit Pr, 2001
ISBN 10: 0262194600 ISBN 13: 9780262194600
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Zustand: Muy bueno. : The German expressionist, architectural visionary, author, inventor, and artist Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) wrote several fictional utopian narratives related to glass architecture. In The Gray Cloth, the first of his novels to be translated into English, Scheerbart uses subtle irony and the structural simplicity of a fairy tale to present the theories of colored glass outlined in his well-known treatise Glass Architecture. The novel is set forward in time to the mid-twentieth century. The protagonist, a Swiss architect named Edgar Krug, circumnavigates the globe by airship with his wife, constructing wildly varied, colored-glass buildings. His projects include a high-rise and exhibition/concert hall in Chicago, a retirement complex for air pilots on the Fiji Islands, the structure for an elevated train across a zoological park in northern India, and a suspended residential villa on the Kuria Muria Islands off the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea. Fearing that his architecture is challenged by the colorfulness of women's clothing, Krug insists that his wife wear all gray clothing with the addition of ten percent white. This odd demand brings him notoriety and sensationalizes his international building campaign. For the reader, it underlines the confluence of architecture with fashion, gender, and global media. In his introduction, John Stuart surveys Scheerbart's career and role in German avant-garde circles, as well as his architectural and social ideas. He shows how Scheerbart strove to integrate his spiritual and romantic leanings with the modern world, often relying on glass architecture to do so. In addition to discussing the novel's reception and its rediscovery by contemporary architects and critics, Stuart shows fiction to be a resource for the study of architecture and places The Gray Cloth in the context of German Expressionism. EAN: 9780262194600 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Arte y fotografía|Arquitectura Título: The Gray Cloth: a Novel on Glass Architecture Autor: Paul Scheerbart| John A. Stuart Editorial: MIT Press (3 diciembre 2001) Idioma: EN Páginas: 136 Formato: Tapa dura Peso: 667 Año de publicación: 2001.
Verlag: MIT Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 0262194600 ISBN 13: 9780262194600
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Zustand: New. pp. xlix + 143.
Verlag: MIT Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 0262194600 ISBN 13: 9780262194600
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Zustand: New. pp. xlix + 143 Illus. (5 Col.).
Verlag: MIT Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 0262194600 ISBN 13: 9780262194600
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Zustand: New.
Verlag: The MIT Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 0262194600 ISBN 13: 9780262194600
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Hardcover with dustjacket; 144 pages; very good condition; clean and crisp; inscribed and signed by John Stuart on first blank page; no other internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.
Verlag: Mit Pr, 2001
ISBN 10: 0262194600 ISBN 13: 9780262194600
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Verlag: Mit Pr, 2001
ISBN 10: 0262194600 ISBN 13: 9780262194600
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Zustand: New. This is a Brand-new US Edition. This Item may be shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide.