Title & Author:

Remaking the crust of the earth / Gavin Murphy et al.

Publication:

Eindhoven : Set Margins', [2023]
©2023

Description:

55 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Series:

Set margins' ; #21

Notes:
On the occasion of an exhibition held at Irish Architectural Archive, March - April 2023.
"The publication features excerpts from the film Remaking the Crust of the Earth, a series of restaged photographic glass tests conducted by Gavin Murphy and Louis Haugh, [...] alongside reproductions from the Raymond McGrath collection in the Irish Architectural Archive"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references.
I. Extracts -- 2. Materials. The glass paradise : the future that did not happen / Marysia Wieckiewicz-Carroll ; A hovering notion of opacity / Chris Fite-Wassilak ; Illustrating the concealing power of glasses.

Summary:

"Presents a layered, intertextual, cultural history which examines the ways in which glass has transformed society — how humans situate themselves within the environment, and how we view the world. Through the unlikely accident of its discovery to its present day ubiquity, it considers glass in its myriad guises: from the modular prefabrication of Joseph Paxton's 'Crystal Palace' to the optimism of Paul Scheerbart's Glasarchitektur, both of which in their own way lay a path for modernism, the curtain wall, and the 20th century 'glass house'. Traversing time and space, this book draws on archival material (and in particular the encyclopaedic 1937 publication 'Glass in Architecture and Decoration' by Raymond McGrath & A.C. Frost) to explore previous and unfulfilled stages of material history, revealing alternatives which belie an 'inevitable' contemporary (and its futures)"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9789083318837 paperback
9083318834

Subject:

Murphy, Gavin, 1973- Exhibitions.
Video art Exhibitions.
Art and architecture Exhibitions.
Glass in art Exhibitions.
Glass construction Social aspects Exhibitions.
Art vidéo Expositions.
Art et architecture Expositions.
Verre dans l'art Expositions.
Construction en verre Aspect social Expositions.
Art and architecture
Video art

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs

Added entries:

Murphy, Gavin, 1973-
Irish Architectural Archive, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319335
Call No.: 319335
Copy: 1
Status: Available