THROUGH THE HEALING GLASS : shaping the modern body through glass architecture, 1925-35.

Main entry:

SADAR, JOHN STANISLAV.

Title & Author:

THROUGH THE HEALING GLASS : shaping the modern body through glass architecture, 1925-35.

Publication:

[Place of publication not identified], TAYLOR & FRANCIS, 2017.

Notes:
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.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

1138573434 (paperback)
9781138573437 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture Human factors History 20th century.
Glass construction Health aspects.
Architectural glass Marketing History 20th century.
Architecture and society History 20th century.
Human engineering.
Health promotion.
Architecture
Ergonomics
Glass
Health Promotion
History, 20th Century
Photoperiod
Architecture Facteurs humains Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture et société Histoire 20e siècle.
Ergonomie.
Promotion de la santé.
Médecine Histoire 20e siècle.
ergonomics.
architecture (discipline)
Architecture and society
Architecture Human factors

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 297662
Call No.: BIB 244014
Status: Available

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