03191oam 2200673I 450 991078409160332120230617040639.01-135-99646-61-135-99647-41-280-16806-40-203-79988-710.4324/9780203799888 (CKB)1000000000255462(EBL)198342(OCoLC)475901662(SSID)ssj0000261727(PQKBManifestationID)11207496(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000261727(PQKBWorkID)10268750(PQKB)10531964(MiAaPQ)EBC198342(Au-PeEL)EBL198342(CaPaEBR)ebr10162745(CaONFJC)MIL16806(OCoLC)252998706(EXLCZ)99100000000025546220180331d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe transparent state architecture and politics in postwar Germany /Deborah Ascher BarnstoneLondon ;New York :Routledge,2005.1 online resource (294 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-70018-3 0-415-70019-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-269) and index.Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Transparency ideology; 2 Transparency in German architecture before and after the War; 3 The quest for an open society; 4 Looking in the mirror transparency after 1989; 5 A metaphor for the new Germany; 6 House of openness architecture of encounter; 7 Coming to terms with the past: transparency in Norman Foster's Reichstag; 8 Why transparency; Appendix 1 Biography of Hans Schwippert; Appendix 2 Biography of Günter Behnisch; Appendix 3 Biography of Norman Foster; Appendix 4 Happiness and Glass Hans Schwippert; Notes; Bibliography; IndexExamining the transformation of transparency as a metaphor in West German political thought to an analogy for democratic architecture, this book questions the prevailing assumption in German architectural circles that transparency in governmental buildings can be equated with openness, accessibility and greater democracy.The Transparent State traces the development of transparency in German political and architectural culture, tying this lineage to the relationship between culture and national identity, a connection that began before unification of the German state inArchitecture and stateGermanyPublic buildingsGermanyTransparency in architectureGermanyTransparency in governmentGermanyGermanyHistory1945-Architecture and statePublic buildingsTransparency in architectureTransparency in government725/.1/094309045Barnstone Deborah Ascher.846318MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784091603321The transparent state3817097UNINA