Title: The transparent state : architecture and politics in postwar Germany /
Authors: Barnstone, Deborah Ascher
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Architecture and state Germany.; Public buildings Germany.; Transparency in architecture Germany.; Transparency in government Germany.; Germany History
Abstract: "This book examines the transformation of transparency as a metaphor in West German political thought to an analogy for democratic architecture, questioning the prevailing assumption in German architectural circles that transparency in governmental buildings can be equated with openness, accessibility, and greater democracy." "Transparency is an important issue in contemporary architectural practice; this book will appeal to both the practicing architect and the architectural historian."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Transparency ideology -- Transparency in German architecture before and after the War -- The quest for an open society -- Looking in the mirror : transparency after 1989 -- A metaphor for the new Germany -- House of openness, architecture of encounter -- Coming to terms with the past : transparency in Norman Foster's Reichstag -- Why transparency?