Götz Diergarten’s interest in glass—employing it as a semi-transparent filter and a design element—emerged during a project by Wilhelm Opatz and the Deutscher Werkbund, in which Diergarten photographed ecclesiastical architecture in Frankfurt. Through this work, he discovered the aesthetic diversity of glass—be it fluted, ornamental, wired, or glass blocks—and its unique ability to refract light and transform reality in abstract ways. Later, still in Frankfurt, he encountered simila…