Engineered transparency the technical, visual, and spatial effects of glass /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Bell, Michael (Michael J.), Kim, Jeannie, 1974-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c2009.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Edwin B. Hathaway
  • Preface / Mark Wigley
  • Introduction / Michael Bell
  • Portfolio : SANAA / Jeannie Kim
  • Essays : Bioconstructivisms / Detlef Martins
  • Mirror glass (a fragment) / Reinhold Martin
  • A crystal world: between reason and spectacle / Joan Ockman
  • The structure of transparency / Nina Rappaport
  • Demands on glass beyond pure transparency / Robert Heintges
  • Glass at the limits / Antoine Picon
  • Infrathin / Guy Nordenson
  • Unclear vision: architectures of surveillance / Beatriz Colomina
  • Is glass still glass? / Kenneth Frampton
  • Insulating glazing units: fabrication and memory of weight and stress / Michael Bell
  • Projects : Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo. / Steven Holl
  • Gefter-Press House, Ghent, N.Y. / Michael Bell
  • The Glass Pavilion, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio / Toshihiro Oki
  • IAC / InterActiveCorp., New York, Michael Bell
  • 7 World Trade Center, New York / James Carpenter
  • 11 March Memorial, Atocha Train Station, Madrid, Spain / Miguel Jaenicke Fontao
  • Technical innovations: material and light : Electrochromic windows / Thomas J. Richardson
  • Double performances / Scott Marble
  • Conversions of light / Graham Dodd
  • Solar vision / Bernhard Weller, Susanne Rexroth, and Stefan Unnewehr
  • Optics, waves, and particles / Michelle Addington
  • Technical innovations: structure and glass : Engineered glass / Werner Sobek
  • Making visions reality / Jens Schneider
  • Maximum glass / Richard L. Tomasetti
  • Fifteen proposals / Ulrich Knaack
  • Glazing for extreme loadings / H. Scott Norville
  • Adhesive connections / Bernhard Weller, Silke Tasche, and Stefan Unnewehr
  • Explosive loadings and flexible facades / Robert Smilowitz
  • Telecom Center, Munich, Germany / Albrecht Burmeister
  • Visual and spatial effects : Inside outside / frame and frameless / Laurie Hawkinson
  • Beyond transparency / James Carpenter
  • Curtain wall / aberrant masonry at 277 Mott Street / Stefan Röschert
  • Energy and comfort / Matthias Schuler
  • Shadows and light / François Roche
  • Phantom house: sustaining the American dream / Elizabeth Diller
  • Afterword / Christian Meyer.