Precious Metal : : German Steel, Modernity, and Ecology / / Peter H. Christensen.
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 wa...
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Christensen, Peter H., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Precious Metal : German Steel, Modernity, and Ecology / Peter H. Christensen. University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource (248 p.) : 89 illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Format -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Origin -- Chapter 2 Industry -- Chapter 3 Production -- Chapter 4 Dissemination -- Chapter 5 Building -- Chapter 6 Return -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945). bisacsh Anthropocene. Germany. Krupp. Second Industrial Revolution. Thyssen. asphalt. company towns. ecology. factories. history of pollution. industrial exhibitions. material-centered history. materiality. mining. prefabrication. recycling. scrap trades. slag. steel. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Architecture and Design 2022 9783110992793 ZDB-23-DAD Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts, Architecture and Design 2022 English 9783110992816 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110766929 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271092454?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271092454 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271092454/original |
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