'In his 1914 treatise Glasarchitektur, Paul Scheerbart announces the arrival of "a culture of glass." In this new glass milieu, he claims, humanity will become completely transformed. So will nature: "The wole of nature will in all regions of culture appear to us in quite different light, after the introduction of glass architecture." Scheerbart's theme was glass used as a material for new buildings, private as well as public. the material would be a means of reforming the sensibility of people, the nature of society, and the perception of nature.' (37)

' The German art critic, philosopher, and writer of futuristic novels Paul Scheerbart (quoted above) wrote his treatise as an inaugaral text announcing a culture of glass. Glass culture was for him both contemporary and a fact of the future. However, Scheerbart wrote at the end of a centrury that had witnessed an incessant occupation with glass.' (39)