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The glasshouses of the nineteenth century represent a remarkable confluence of opposites in architecture and technology. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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Choice Review
A sequel, of sorts, to Johann Friedrich Geist's Arcades: The History of a Building Type (CH, May '83), which is a comparable encyclopedia of pedestrian walkways of the 19th century-as opposed to the greenhouses and exhibition halls that form the subject of the book at hand. Houses of Glass will appeal most to architects, architectural historians, and historians of the physical fabric of cities. It is sumptuously produced with hundreds of plans and black-and-white photographs, although the artistic photographs at the end, making up almost a third of the book, seem a bit padded. Technical and structural matters are especially well covered in the 150-page introduction to the catalog, which makes up the bulk of the book. US readers should be aware of the fact that only four of the cataloged buildings are located in North America. This is a book, almost exclusively, about European ``glass houses.''-P. Kaufman, Suffolk County Community College
Library Journal Review
Translation of the 1981 German Das Glashaus , this is a survey of the architectural development of the glasshousefirst as botanic hothouse, then evolving into exhibition halls, markets, theaters, pleasure gardens, etc. The authors, an architect and a sculptor, first relate the history of the type, with emphasis on the technical and technological aspects as well as the cultural meaning of the glasshouse. They follow this section with a catalog of 126 European and British examples, both extant and destroyed, and conclude with several hundred photographs, mostly of existing buildings. The book is well produced and informative, both in detail and in the broad context of bourgeois culture. For academic collections. Jack Perry Brown, Ryerson & Burnham Libs., Art Inst. of Chicago (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
