Welcome to the Glass Age

106 about glass. To a certain degree, the International Year of Glass reinserts the debate of glass architecture in the 2020s and opens up the possibilities to review what was discussed only as utopies in the 1920s, perhaps even speculate what new typologies could develop from contemporary Acknowledgements The author thanks Lucien Belmonte and Abividro for their support in developing this research. She also acknowledges Gabriel Iguchi and Luiza Nadalutti for their assistance, ideas, and research for this text. References [1] T entori (2000): 150-152. E smeraldo , E. G. (2020): AMER. A primeira América de Bardi: diário de bordo de P. M. Bardi (1933-1934) , Unicamp. [2] B enjamin , W. & T iedemann , R. (1999): The arcades project , Cambridge, Belknap Press: 150. [3] B enjamin , W. & T iedemann , R. (1999): The arcades project , Cambridge, Belknap Press: 154. [4] S chirren , M. (2004): Bruno Taut, Alpine Architektur. Eine Utopie, A Utopia , Munchen, Prestel: 36. [5] T aut , B. (2015): The City Crown , Surrey, Ashgate Publishing. [6] T afuri , M. (1987): The Sphere and the Labyrinth: Avant-Gardes and Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s , Cambridge, MIT Press: 125. [7] W right , F. (2008): Modern Architecture: being the Kahn lectures for 1930 , Princeton, Princeton University Press: 38. [8] C olomina , B. (2019): X-Ray architecture , Zürich, Lars Müller Publishers. Further reading B enjamin , W. (1986): “Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of European Intelligentsia”, in S. E. Bronner & D. M. Kellner (editors), Critical Theory and Society , Routledge. — (1999): “Experience and Poverty” in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings Vol. 2 , Harvard University Press. B enjamin , W. & T iedemann , R. (1999): The arcades project , Cambridge, Belknap Press. C olomina , B. (2019): X-Ray architecture , Zürich, Lars Müller Publishers. E smeraldo , E. G. (2020): AMER. A primeira América de Bardi: diário de bordo de P. M. Bardi (1933-1934) , Unicamp. G ropius , W. (1965): The New Architecture and the Bauhaus , Cambridge, MIT Press. L e C orbusier (1964): When Cathedrals were White , McGraw-Hill Paperback. L e C orbusier ; S irton , P. & B erton , T. (2012): “Glass the Fundamental Material of Modern Architecture”, West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture , 19 (2). glass and new technological means of production. If there is urgency in solving pressing matters today, glass architecture should also concern with what comes of tomorrow as once it was seen as a clear future in itself.