New Glass Architecture

Name: New Glass Architecture
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ISBN: 9780300107951

ISBN-10: 0300107951

ISBN-13: 9780300107951

Edition: 2006

Authors: Brent Richards, Dennis Gilbert

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For centuries, glass has provoked fascination with its properties as a versatile material that permits light to enter buildings in spectacular ways. Much of modern architecture has been conceived by using glass to create increasingly minimal structures, to promote the notion of lightweight construction solutions, and to allow maximum daylight into buildings. "New Glass Architecture" showcases the changing ways that aesthetics and methods for using glass have been developing since the 1990s. The book begins with an introduction that traces the history of key moments in glass architecture--from the stained glass windows of Chartres Cathedral to the Crystal Palace of 1851, and early…

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 10/2/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 9.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 3.498
Language: English