Title & Author:

Glass in Architecture / [presented by] Michael Wigginton.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1988.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (44 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Palace In Nepal -- Medieval Castle -- Window, Châtres Cathedral -- Hardwick Hall -- Palm House, Kew Gardens -- Crystal Palace -- Glass Tower, Mies van der Rohe -- Cité de Refuge, Le Corbusier -- Glass Being Rolled -- Diagram: Float Glass Process -- Table: Float Glass Range -- Diagram: Sun's Energy -- Diagram: Transmission Of Energy In Glass -- Diagram: Glass Enrichment -- Corning Museum, New York -- Willis Faber Dumas Building -- House, Almere, Bentham & Crouwel -- Enclosure, Sonsbeek Park. B & C -- Science Museum Glass-Houses, Parc De La Villette. RFR For Adrien Fainsilber -- Louvre Glass Pyramid By RFR For I.M. Pei -- Transparent Or Translucent Partitions -- Japanese Himawari System -- Top: Ceramic Glass Hob. Bottom: Zerodur Glass Disc -- Diagram: Thinking Building.

Summary:

The architect Michael Wigginton has had a long interest in the relationship between glass and architecture, and has written a major work "Glass In Architecture" published by Phaidon Press. After graduating from Cambridge University, he worked for SOM, then YRM, and from 1986 - 1994 with Richard Horden as co-principal at Richard Horden Associates. He has taught in schools of architecture in the UK, Europe and America, and is the author of many articles and books. His current research work includes the development of a refractive glazing system with a major European glass manufacturer. In his talk he discusses float glass and the chemistry of its colours; the transmission of light and energy by glass; thin film coating of glass with liquid crystals; and the ultra-strong ceramic glass. In his opinion, the future lies in integrating such strong glasses with the thin film electrochromic chromogenic glasses to produce skins for buildings that are as efficient as human skin.

Subject:

Glass construction.
Construction en verre.

Added entries:

Wigginton, Michael, narrator.