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July 2023
The use of glass dates back to 1500 B.C. when the Egyptians developed the first hollow glass containers to store their precious ointments and oils. However, only in the 11th century, during the Romanesque period, was transparent and translucent glass adopted for window coverings to allow light to penetrate into buildings, or even for interior liturgical partitions.
Since then glass has been widely exploited in architecture, but only as a means to revisit styles of the past. From the Byzantine Empire to Venetian craftsmanship, from Rococo to Art Nouveau, since the early 1900s when the binomial glass + steel was conceived and implemented on truly revolutionary works, becoming the primary component of buildings.*
Join us in exploring how the glass industry has placed itself at the service of the history of architecture.
Source*: Wikipedia
