“X-Ray Architecture explores the enormous impact of medical discourse and imaging technologies on the formation, representation and reception of twentieth-century architecture. It challenges the normal understanding of modern architecture by proposing that it was shaped by the dominant medical obsession of its time: tuberculosis and its primary diagnostic tool, the X-ray. Modern architecture and the X-ray were born around the same time and evolved in parallel. While the X-ray exposed the inside of the body to the public eye, the modern building unveiled its interior, dramatically inverting the relationship between private and public. Architects presented their buildings as a kind…

I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow as in ordinary buildings   Ludwig Mies van der Rohe[1] Should We Save Mid-Century Modern Icons That Hurt The Environment? James Timberlake,  2015[2] Reglazing Modernism Between the above quoted poetic remark by star architect Mies and sceptic recent observations of  architect James Timberlake, manoeuvre the authors. The publication, by Birkhäuser Architecture in a German and an English edition, introduces itself as the first one of a serial. The list of examples (nine in USA and eleven…