The gray cloth : Paul Scheerbart's novel on glass architecture / introduced, translated, and with drawings by John A. Stuart.

Main entry:

Scheerbart, Paul, 1863-1915.

Title & Author:

The gray cloth : Paul Scheerbart's novel on glass architecture / introduced, translated, and with drawings by John A. Stuart.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2001.

Description:

xlix, 143 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-143).
Translated from the German.

Summary:

"The protagonist, a Swiss architect named Edgar Krug, circumnavigates the globe by airship with his wife, constructing wildly varied colored-glass buildings. His projects include a high-rise and exhibition/concert hall in Chicago, a retirement complex for air pilots in Fiji, the structure for an elevated train across a zoological park in northern India, and a suspended residential villa on the Kuria Muria Islands off the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea. Fearing that his archituecture is challenged by th colorfulness of women's clothing, Krug insists that his wife wear all gray clothing with the addition of ten percent white."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0262194600 (alk. paper)
9780262194600 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Scheerbart, Paul, 1863-1915. Graue Tuch und zehn Prozent Weiss.
Graue Tuch und zehn Prozent Weiss (Scheerbart, Paul)
Architecture in literature.
Architecture dans la littérature.
Architecture Fiction.

Form/genre:

Fiction
Romans.

Added entries:

Stuart, John A.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 218977
Call No.: PT2638.E4 S3 2001
Status: Available

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