Contemporary curtain wall architecture
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Princeton Architectural Press,
c2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Pt. I. A history of the curtain wall as concept and construct. The Chicago frame and the dilemma of the wall
- Visions of a transparent future
- The mid-twentieth-century curtain wall
- New directions and new priorities
- Pt. II. Performance and technique. Curtain wall system design
- Building envelope as selective filter
- Pt. III. Case studies. Introduction
- The new 42nd Street studios / Platt Byard Dovell White
- Melvin J. and Claire Levine Hall / KieranTimberlake Associates
- One Omotesando / Kengo Kuma and Associates
- William J. Clinton Presidential Center / Polshek Partnership Architects
- Green-Wood Mausoleum / Platt Byard Dovell White
- LVMH Osaka / Kengo Kuma and Associates
- Seattle Public Library / Office for Metropolitan Architecture and LMN Architects
- Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research / architectsAlliance and Behnisch Architekten
- Torre Agbar / Ateliers Jean Nouvel
- Torre Cube / Estudio Carme Pinós
- Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision / Neutelings Riedijk Architects
- Skirkanich Hall / Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
- Trutec Building / Barkow Leibinger Architekten
- Biomedical Science Research Building / Polshek Partnership Architects
- ATLAS Building / Rafael Viñoly Architects
- Blue Tower / Bernard Tschumi Architects
- The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art / Steven Holl Architects
- The New York Times Building / Renzo Piano Building Workshop and FXFOWLE Architects
- Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies / Krueck + Sexton Architects
- United States Federal Building / Morphosis
- Yale Sculpture Building / KieranTimberlake Associates
- The Cathedral of Christ the Light / Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
- 100 Eleventh Avenue / Ateliers Jean Nouvel
- 166 Perry Street / Asymptote.