{"product_id":"remaking-the-crust-of-the-earth-9789083318837","title":"Remaking the Crust of the Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gavin Murphy\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Set Margins' Publications\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Set Margins' Publications\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA layered cultural history of the origins, impacts and material legacy of glass\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis layered, intertextual, cultural history examines humankind's relationship with glass and the ways in which glass has transformed society and the constructed world. \u003ci\u003e Remaking the Crust of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e considers glass in its myriad guises: from the modular prefabrication of Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace to the utopian optimism of Paul Scheerbart's Glasarchitektur, both of which paved a way for for modernism, the curtain wall and the 20th-century glass house. Traversing time and space, the book includes archival material (in particular the encyclopaedic 1937 publication \u003ci\u003eGlass in Architecture and Decoration\u003c\/i\u003e by Raymond McGrath and A.C. Frost); excerpts from the film \u003ci\u003eRemaking the Crust of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e; a series of restaged photographic glass tests conducted by Gavin Murphy and Louis Haugh; essays by Marysia Wieckiewicz-Carroll and Chris Fite-Wassilak; and reproductions from the Raymond McGrath collection in the Irish Architectural Archive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Set Margins' Publications","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45033759244439,"sku":"9789083318837","price":1579.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789083318837.webp?v=1769209760","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/remaking-the-crust-of-the-earth-9789083318837","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}