Great Glass Building

Great Glass Building

228 Pages | PDF | 51 Mb

In Great Glass Buildings , Peter and Jennifer Hyatt present fifty exemplary modern projects that explore a number of theories about the nature, mystique and attraction of glass in the architecture of recent years. 

Variously performing roles that include giftwrap, lightweight armour, transmitter and insulator, glass began its re-emergence as an architectural force during the 1990s, as a symbol of new modernism. 

Advances in glass-making and construction technology and the advent of structural glazing, fixing systems, glass coatings and waterproof connections have transformed the ambitious dreams of the past into reality. 

Including projects by Foster and Partners, Murphy Jahn, Santiago Calatrava, Shigeru Ban, Renzo Piano and many others, this book reveals the complex nature of glass in today's architecture.
 

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Glass Structures : Design and Construction of Self-supporting Skins.

Glass Structures :
Design and Construction of Self-supporting Skins.

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Glass Construction Manual

Glass Construction Manual

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Intelligent Skins

Intelligent Skins

Looking to the future, Intelligent Skins sets out the principles for the design of the intelligent building envelope. It highlights an exciting new approach to the area, where the fabric of the building responds to external changes and internal demands.
 

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Glass Structures

Glass Structures

Jan Wurm

Flat glass opens up more possibilities for the planner than virtually any other material. Because of the technological complexity of using it, however, no specific structural forms have been developed for glass supporting frameworks as they have been for wood, concrete, and steel. This book is thus the first to present a coherent guide to the planning and design of glass supporting frameworks. The focus is on the pressure-resistant, flat supporting element as a basic building block for broad supporting structures. The spatial and constructive forms of multifunctional, self-supporting glass envelopes are vividly illustrated and systematically explained. The constructions presented exhibit new aesthetic qualities, based not on the dictum of ""dematerialization but on the poetry of gleaming and transparent planes. They ring in a new chapter in the history of glass architecture.

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Glass Construction Manual

Glass Construction Manual

Christian Schittich, Gerald Staib, Dieter Balkow, Matthias Schuler, Werner Sobek 

In compact and appealing form, the completely revised «Glass Construction Manual» presents the current state of the art on planning and building with glass, from the history through the technical foundations all the way to the most innovative applications.

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Great Glass Building

Great Glass Building

Images Publishing Dist A/C |  | 228 Pages | PDF | 51 Mb

In Great Glass Buildings , Peter and Jennifer Hyatt present fifty exemplary modern projects that explore a number of theories about the nature, mystique and attraction of glass in the architecture of recent years. Variously performing roles that include giftwrap, lightweight armour, transmitter and insulator, glass began its re-emergence as an architectural force during the 1990s, as a symbol of new modernism. Advances in glass-making and construction technology and the advent of structural glazing, fixing systems, glass coatings and waterproof connections have transformed the ambitious dreams of the past into reality. Including projects by Foster and Partners, Murphy Jahn, Santiago Calatrava, Shigeru Ban, Renzo Piano and many others, this book reveals the complex nature of glass in today's architecture.

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The Use of Glass in Buildings: 1st Symposium on the Use of Glass in Buildings

The Use of Glass in Buildings: 1st Symposium on the Use of Glass in Buildings, 

2002, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (ASTM Special Technical Publication, 1434) 

By ASTM International

Publisher: ASTM International 2002-01-01 | 173 Pages |  PDF | 8.36 MB

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Designing with Glass: Great Glass Buildings

Designing with Glass: Great Glass Buildings
Images Publishing Dist A/C | Pages: 224 | 2006 | ISBN-10: 1864701129 | 51 MB

In Great Glass Buildings , Peter and Jennifer Hyatt present fifty exemplary modern projects that explore a number of theories about the nature, mystique and attraction of glass in the architecture of recent years. Variously performing roles that include giftwrap, lightweight armour, transmitter and insulator, glass began its re-emergence as an architectural force during the 1990s, as a symbol of new modernism. Advances in glass-making and construction technology and the advent of structural glazing, fixing systems, glass coatings and waterproof connections have transformed the ambitious dreams of the past into reality. Including projects by Foster and Partners, Murphy Jahn, Santiago Calatrava, Shigeru Ban, Renzo Piano and many others, this book reveals the complex nature of glass in today's architecture.

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