03632nam a2200361 a 4500 ebr10472763 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 080604s2009 nyua sb 100 0 eng d 2008024927 9781568987989 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1568987986 (hardcover : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)769114441 NA4140 .E46 2009eb 721/.04496 22 Engineered transparency [electronic resource] : the technical, visual, and spatial effects of glass / Michael Bell and Jeannie Kim, editors. 1st ed. New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c2009. 272 p. : ill. (chiefly col.). 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 R�oschert -- Energy and comfort / Matthias Schuler -- Shadows and light / Fran�cois Roche -- Phantom house: sustaining the American dream / Elizabeth Diller -- Afterword / Christian Meyer. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Glass construction Congresses. Architecture, Modern 21st century Congresses. Architectural glass Congresses. Electronic books. local Bell, Michael (Michael J.) Kim, Jeannie, 1974- ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10472763 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 221053 221053