Abstract
Within the framework of an overall theory of the cultural history of materials, this article reconstructs the role of tempered glass in the modernist imagination, from architecture (Giuseppe Terragni’s Danteum and Casa del Fascio) to the Gläserne Mensch (Glass man) and Gläserne Frau (Glass woman), the stars of the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden.
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