Engineered transparency

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

Foreword / Edwin B. Hathaway
Mark Wigley
Michael Bell
Jeannie Kim
Detlef Martins
Reinhold Martin
Joan Ockman
Nina Rappaport
Robert Heintges
Antoine Picon
Guy Nordenson
Beatriz Colomina
Kenneth Frampton
Michael Bell
Steven Holl
Michael Bell
Toshihiro Oki
InterActiveCorp., New York, Michael Bell
James Carpenter
Miguel Jaenicke Fontao
Preface / Introduction / Portfolio : SANAA / Essays : Bioconstructivisms / Mirror glass (a fragment) / A crystal world: between reason and spectacle / The structure of transparency / Demands on glass beyond pure transparency / Glass at the limits / Infrathin / Unclear vision: architectures of surveillance / Is glass still glass? / Insulating glazing units: fabrication and memory of weight and stress / Projects : Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo. / Gefter-Press House, Ghent, N.Y. / The Glass Pavilion, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio / IAC / 7 World Trade Center, New York / 11 March Memorial, Atocha Train Station, Madrid, Spain /

Technical innovations: material and light : Electrochromic windows / Thomas J. Richardson
Scott Marble
Graham Dodd
Bernhard Weller, Susanne Rexroth, and Stefan Unnewehr
Michelle Addington
Werner Sobek
Jens Schneider
Richard L. Tomasetti
Ulrich Knaack
H. Scott Norville
Bernhard Weller, Silke Tasche, and Stefan Unnewehr
Robert Smilowitz
Albrecht Burmeister
frame and frameless / Laurie Hawkinson
James Carpenter
aberrant masonry at 277 Mott Street / Stefan Ro?schert
Matthias Schuler
Franc?ois Roche
Elizabeth Diller
Christian Meyer Double performances / Conversions of light / Solar vision / Optics, waves, and particles / Technical innovations: structure and glass : Engineered glass / Making visions reality / Maximum glass / Fifteen proposals / Glazing for extreme loadings / Adhesive connections / Explosive loadings and flexible facades / Telecom Center, Munich, Germany / Visual and spatial effects : Inside outside / Beyond transparency / Curtain wall / Energy and comfort / Shadows and light / Phantom house: sustaining the American dream / Afterword /

Published New York, NY : Princeton Architectural Press, 2009

Language English

Material 272 p.

ISBN 1568987986 / 9781568987989

NA 4140 E577 2009

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