What a great post! Interesting how the sidewalk dining that expanded so much during the pandemic contributes to the dissolving of boundaries between inside and outside (as any city with long traditions of outdoor cafes already knows). My friend Daniel Jütte’s book *Transparency: The Material History of an Idea* (Yale University Press, 2023) is a scholarly exploration of some of this: “From ancient glass to Apple’s corporate headquarters, this book is the first to probe how Western people have experienced, conceptualized, and evaluated transparency. Daniel Jütte argues that the experience of transparency has been inextricably linked to one element of Western architecture: the glass window.”
What a great post! Interesting how the sidewalk dining that expanded so much during the pandemic contributes to the dissolving of boundaries between inside and outside (as any city with long traditions of outdoor cafes already knows). My friend Daniel Jütte’s book *Transparency: The Material History of an Idea* (Yale University Press, 2023) is a scholarly exploration of some of this: “From ancient glass to Apple’s corporate headquarters, this book is the first to probe how Western people have experienced, conceptualized, and evaluated transparency. Daniel Jütte argues that the experience of transparency has been inextricably linked to one element of Western architecture: the glass window.”
I'll have to check that book out. Thanks!