Name: Precious Metal: German Steel, Modernity, and Ecology (en Inglés)
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Author: Christensen, Peter H.
ISBN: 9780271092324

portada Precious Metal: German Steel, Modernity, and Ecology (en Inglés)

Precious Metal: German Steel, Modernity, and Ecology (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Peter H. Christensen

Editorial

Penn State University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

248

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

25.4 x 20.3 x 1.8 cm

Peso

0.64 kg.

ISBN13

9780271092324

Categorías

Modernismo
Materiales en la arquitectura
Paisajismo: arquitectura y diseño
Historia de la arquitectura

Precious Metal: German Steel, Modernity, and Ecology (en Inglés)

Peter H. Christensen (Autor) · Penn State University Press · Tapa Blanda

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With its incorporation into architecture on a grand scale during the long nineteenth century, steel forever changed the way we perceive and inhabit buildings. In this book, Peter H. Christensen shows that even as architects and engineers were harnessing steel's incredible properties, steel itself was busy transforming the natural world. Precious Metal explores this quintessentially modernist material--not for the heroic structural innovations it facilitated but for a deeper understanding of the role it played in the steady change of the earth. Focusing on the formative years of the architectural steel economy and on the corporate history of German steel titans Krupp and Thyssen, Christensen investigates the ecological interrelationship of artificial and natural habitats, mediated by steel. He traces steel through six distinct phases: birth, formation, display, dispersal, construction, and return. By following the life of steel from the collection of raw minerals to the distribution and disposal of finished products, Christensen challenges the traditional narrative that steel was simply the primary material responsible for architectural modernism.Based on the premise that building materials are as much a part of the natural world as they are of a building, this groundbreaking book rewrites an important chapter of architectural history. It will be welcomed by specialists in architectural history, nineteenth-century studies, environmental history, German studies, modernist studies, and the Anthropocene.