Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-269) and index.
Chapter 1 Transparency ideology -- chapter 2 Transparency in German architecture before and after the War -- chapter 3 The quest for an open society -- chapter 4 Looking in the mirror -- Transparency after 1989 -- chapter 5 A metaphor for the new Germany -- chapter 6 House of openness, architecture of encounter -- chapter 7 Coming to terms with the past -- Transparency in Norman Foster's Reichstag -- chapter 8 Why transparency?
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'The Transparent State' studies how the idea of transparency, a metaphor borrowed from political thought became an analogy for democratic architecture in postwar West Germany & led to the prevailing belief that transparency in governmental buildings can be equated with openness, accessibility & greater democracy.