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“Into the blue depths” — Glass Mysticism in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s ‘We’ Luke Jones — Sept 2018

Bruno Taut ‘Dandanah: The Fairy Place’ (1919)

Diagram from Philip E. Wegner Imaginary Communities Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity (2002)

Hugh Feriss ‘Glass City’ (1929)

Wenzel Hablik ‘Starry Sky: Attempt’ (1909)

Mies van der Rohe Project for Alexanderplatz (1928)

Mies van der Rohe Project for Friedrichsstrasse (1921)

Photograph of Scheerbart, Bruno Taut and

• thers in the Glashaus, Cologne (1914)

Aphorisms for Bruno Taut’s Glashaus

Bruno Taut from Alpine Architecture (1917-19)

Bruno Taut from Die Auflösung der Städte (1919)

Bruno Taut (left) from Die Auflösung der Städte (1919) (right) from Alpine Architecture (1917-19)

Ivan Leonidov ‘The City of the Sun’ (1930s, various)

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Diagram of the plan of ‘The City of the Sun’ (author’s own)