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1 sty 2009 · The Glass Room by Siman Mawer is about a glass room in a house and the people who inhabit it over the years. It is about the Landauer family and the architect they hire to build the house, Ranier von Apt, who is loosely based on Mies van der Rohe.
13 lut 2009 · With the Glass Room that forms the open-plan living area, the building will always be controversial. Mawer has it tell a story of the 20th century. The house rises as Liesel's first child,...
Summary. The Landauers, a recently married couple, commission German architect Rainer von Abt to build a modern house in Brno (Czechoslovakia). The Landauer House, based on the Villa Tugendhat, becomes a minimalist masterpiece, with a transparent glass room as its center.
13 gru 2009 · Save this story. In this stirring historical novel, shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize, Viktor and Liesel Landauer commission a house in Czechoslovakia that is to embody the rational spirit...
14 sty 2009 · The home at the heart of The Glass Room, Simon Mawer’s eighth novel, is the opposite of primitive. Its architect, Rainer von Abt, regards brick and stone as building materials for cavemen.
29 gru 2023 · Mawer’s The Glass Room is a genuine intellectual achievement—a breath-taking story of love and its loss, of art and lost art, of wars lost and then won and lost again, of rich gentleman Jews and Jews lost to Nazi madness.
26 mar 2010 · US News Reporter. Liesel and Viktor Landauer, a young Czech couple, are honeymooning in Venice when they meet Rainer von Abt, an architect who wants to build a house of glass. Viktor, who is...
