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The transparent state : architecture and politics in postwar Germany /

'The Transparent State' studies how the idea of transparency, a metaphor borrowed from political thought became an analogy for democratic architecture in postwar West Germany & led to the prevailing belief that transparency in governmental buildings can be equated with openness, access...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barnstone, Deborah Ascher
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1 Transparency ideology
  • chapter 2 Transparency in German architecture before and after the War
  • chapter 3 The quest for an open society
  • chapter 4 Looking in the mirror
  • Transparency after 1989
  • chapter 5 A metaphor for the new Germany
  • chapter 6 House of openness, architecture of encounter
  • chapter 7 Coming to terms with the past
  • Transparency in Norman Foster's Reichstag
  • chapter 8 Why transparency?