"…The development of space by means of glass and iron had come to a standstill./ Suddenly, however, it gained new strength from a perfectly inconspicuous source./ Once again, this source was a 'house,' one designed to 'shelter the needy,' but it was a house neither for mortals nor for divinities, neither for hearth fires nor for inanimate goods; it was, rather, a house for plants./ The origin of all present-day architecture in iron and glass in the greenhouse." A.G. Meyer, Eisenbauten, p. 55 The arcade is the hallmark of the world Proust depicts. Curious that, like this world, it should be bound in its origin to the existence of plants. [F4,1]
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