The Transparent State
Subtitle: Architecture and Politics in Postwar Germany
Publisher: Routledge
Published: February 3, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780415700191
First sentence: "He who builds transparently, builds democratically," is a truism of parliamentary architecture in the Federal Republic of Germany adopted to further several postwar myths: the occasion of a Zero Hour; the existence of a democratic architecture and its opposite, a totalitarian one; the likening of an open society with a transparent one; and the equating of a democratically elected parliament with an accessible one.3