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Glas ist eines der faszinierendsten und vielseitigsten Baumaterialien der Architekturgeschichte. Die hier versammelten neuen Forschungsergebnisse thematisieren Glas an den Schnittstellen von Produktion, Konstruktionstechnologie und Baukultur. Sie untersuchen die zentrale Rolle von Flachglas in der Architektur, insbesondere seit dem 18. Jahrhundert, und diskutieren die In-situ-Restaurierung historischer Fenster und Glasfassaden sowie die Herausforderungen, dieses fragile Erbe zu bewahren. Die Themen reichen von der Flachglasherstellung in vorindustrieller Zeit bis zu den Möglichkeiten der Reparatur und der Wiederverwendbarkeit von Isolierverglasungen. Die Beiträge aus unterschiedlichsten Disziplinen schlagen Brücken zwischen den Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften und der Konservierung und Restaurierung von Kulturgut. Mit Beiträgen in englischer, deutscher und französischer Sprache Multidisziplinärer Exkurs in die Geschichte der Herstellung und Verwendung von Flachglas Von der Römerzeit bis heute Neue Perspektiven auf Flachglas als Baumaterial und Kulturerbe Glass is one of the most fascinating and versatile building materials in architectural history. The new insights into glass in architecture are the result of research at the intersection of glass production, construction technology and building culture. Coming from a variety of disciplines, the contributions bridge the divide between natural sciences, humanities and the preservation and restoration of cultural heritage. They explore the crucial role of flat glass in shaping architecture, particularly since the 18th century, and discuss the in-situ restoration of historic windows and glass façades and the importance of preserving this fragile heritage. The topics range from the manufacture of sheet glass in pre-industrial times to the possibilities of repair and reusability of insulating glazing. With contributions in English, German and French A multi-disciplinary survey of the history of the production and use of flat glass From the Roman times to the present day New insights on sheet glass as building material and cultural heritage

Cultural Heritage. --- New Building. --- building material. --- glass production. --- industry. --- materiality. --- modern architecture. --- sheet glass. --- skyscraper. --- technology. --- transparency. --- window.

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Posits a new, aesthetically and politically radical, transnational German cinema - "transnational" also in the sense of concerns with migration, the movement of capital across borders, and globalization.

PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. --- Berlin School. --- abjection. --- affect studies. --- anti-fascist. --- audiovisual. --- cinematography. --- feminism. --- grassroots activism. --- immigrants. --- intimacy. --- marginalization. --- materiality. --- migrants. --- mockumentaries. --- pessimism. --- phenomenology. --- queer cinema. --- refugees. --- translation. --- voice.

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"In Modernism's Magic Hat, Ijlal Muzaffar examines how modern architects and planners help resolve one of the central dilemmas of the mid-twentieth-century world order: how to make decolonization plausible without accounting for centuries of capital drain under colonial rule. In the years after the Second World War, architects and planners found extensive opportunities in new international institutions--such as the World Bank, the UN, and the Ford Foundation--and helped shape new models of global intervention that displaced the burden of change onto the inhabitants. Muzaffar argues that architecture in this domain didn't just symbolically represent power, but formed the material domain through which new modes of power acquired sense. Looking at a series of architectural projects across the world, from housing in Ghana to village planning in Nigeria and urban planning in Venezuela and Pakistan, Muzaffar explores how architects and planners shaped new ideas of time, land, climate, and the decolonizing body, making them appear as sources of untapped value. What resulted, Muzaffar argues, is a widespread belief in spontaneous Third World "development" without capital, which continues to foreclose any global discussion of colonial theft"--

Imperialisme et architecture --- Decolonisation. --- Architecture --- Decolonization. --- Architecture and state. --- Decolonization --- Economic development projects --- Imperialism and architecture --- City planning --- Histoire --- Politique gouvernementale. --- History --- Political aspects --- post-World War II, Bretton Woods, Materiality, Race, Tropical Architecture, Sustainability, Design, Self-help, Scarcity, Value, Risk, Quality, Quantity, Pattern, Core, Roof, Climatic, Modernism, Land, Property, Indirect Rule.

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How ordinary forms of writing—including manuals, petitions, almanacs, and magazines—shaped the way colonial subjects understood their place in empire In Required Reading, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay offers a new and provocative history of reading that centers archives of everyday writing from the British empire. Mukhopadhyay rummages in the drawers of bureaucratic offices and the cupboards of publishers in search of how historical readers in colonial South Asia responded to texts ranging from licenses to manuals, how they made sense of them, and what this can tell us about their experiences living in the shadow of a vast imperial power. Taking these engagements seriously, she argues, is the first step to challenging conventional notions of what it means to read.Mukhopadhyay’s account is populated by a cast of characters that spans the ranks of colonial society, from bored soldiers to frustrated bureaucrats. These readers formed close, even intimate relationships with everyday texts. She presents four case studies: a soldier’s manual, a cache of bureaucratic documents, a collection of astrological almanacs, and a women’s literary magazine. Tracking moments in which readers refused to read, were unable to read, and read in part, she uncovers the dizzying array of material, textual, and aural practices these texts elicited. Even selectively read almanacs and impenetrable account books, she finds, were springboards for personal, world-shaping readerly relationships.Untethered from the constraints of conventional literacy, Required Reading reimagines how texts work in the world and how we understand the very idea of reading.

Literacy --- Reader-response criticism --- Colonies --- Acts. --- Almanacs. --- Articles. --- Astrological. --- Bengal. --- Bengali. --- Books. --- British empire. --- Bureaucracy. --- Bureaucratic documents. --- Bureaucratic. --- Ceylon. --- Colonial. --- Community. --- Education. --- Elite. --- Empire. --- Family. --- Functional archive. --- Gun. --- Handbook. --- History of the book. --- History. --- Illiterate. --- Imperial. --- Knowledge. --- Language. --- License. --- Literacy. --- Literate. --- Literature. --- Magazine. --- Manual. --- Military. --- Modern. --- Mulvaney. --- Newspaper. --- Novel. --- Panjika. --- Paperwork. --- Pocket. --- Power. --- Priyasha Mukhopadhyay. --- Publishers. --- Rabindranath Tagore. --- Railway. --- Readers. --- Relationships. --- Reports. --- Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire. --- Silindu. --- Soldiers. --- Space. --- Twentieth century. --- Victorian empire. --- Village. --- War. --- Wolseley. --- Woolf. --- archival histories. --- colonial India. --- colonial South Asia. --- gender. --- history of reading. --- materiality. --- military history. --- postcolonial literature. --- print culture. --- race. --- temporality.