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‘Without a palace of glass, life is a burdensome task.’ Paul Scheerbart’s utopian fantasies

From the February 2015 issue of Apollo: preview and subscribe here  If Paul Scheerbart (1863–1915) is known outside the German-speaking world, it’s as an architectural prophet. The Gdansk-born writer’s reputation stands on Glass Architecture (1914), a series of surreal, optimistic and apparently ingenuous aphorisms about the benefits of a future environment made entirely of iron, concrete and…

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