Title & Author:

Engineered transparency : the technical, visual, and spatial effects of glass / Michael Bell and Jeannie Kim, editors.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2009.

Description:

272 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm + 1 DVD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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Summary:

"After its role in the last century's call to a radical new architecture for urban life, glass has emerged as a culturally accepted material in architecture and construction. Offering novel modes of visual pleasure and spatial experience, glass has been the beneficiary of major technical advances that are decidedly less visible. Structural innovations, engineering at the level of optics, enhanced thermal properties, and expanded fabrication and installation limits have dramatically reconfigured the extent and reach of glass applications. This publication brings together an extraordinary group architects, engineers, manufacturers, and scholars to collectively reconsider our never-ending fascination with glass and to bring this revolutionary material back before our eyes."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
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ISBN:

9781568987989 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1568987986 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Glass construction Congresses.
Architecture, Modern 21st century Congresses.
Architectural glass Congresses.
Construction en verre Congrès.
Architecture 21e siècle Congrès.
Verre architectural Congrès.
Architecture, Modern Congresses. 21st century.
Architectural glass.
Architecture, Modern.
Glass construction.
Glasbau
Engineered transparancy

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung
Conference publications.
Optical disks.
DVDs.
Video recordings (physical artifacts)
Conference papers and proceedings.

Added entries:

Bell, Michael (Michael J.)
Kim, Jeannie, 1974-
Columbia books on architecture, engineering, and materials.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261179
Call No.: BIB 192192
Status: Available