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This publication - the first full-length critical and historical account of the Archigram phenomenon - traces Archigram from its rediscovery of early modernist verve through its courting of students to its ascent to international notoriety for advocating the "disappearance of architecture".
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This publication - the first full-length critical and historical account of the Archigram phenomenon - traces Archigram from its rediscovery of early modernist verve through its courting of students to its ascent to international notoriety for advocating the "disappearance of architecture".
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Archigram: architecture without architecture
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This publication - the first full-length critical and historical account of the Archigram phenomenon - traces Archigram from its rediscovery of early modernist verve through its courting of students to its ascent to international notoriety for advocating the "disappearance of architecture".
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This publication - the first full-length critical and historical account of the Archigram phenomenon - traces Archigram from its rediscovery of early modernist verve through its courting of students to its ascent to international notoriety for advocating the "disappearance of architecture".
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July 2005, Cambridge
July 2005, Cambridge
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Architecture Monographs
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We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, “In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World”. These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centred on technology,(...)
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We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, “In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World”. These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centred on technology,(...)
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In the bubble : designing in a complex world
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We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, “In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World”. These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centred on technology, so it would be no small matter if "tech" ceased to be an end-in-itself in our daily lives. Technology is not going to go away, but the time to discuss the end it will serve is before we deploy it, not after. We need to ask what purpose will be served by the broadband communications, smart materials, wearable computing, and connected appliances that we're unleashing upon the world. We need to ask what impact all this stuff will have on our daily lives. Who will look after it, and how? ”In the Bubble” is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now -- not in a remote science fiction future; it's not about, as he puts it, "the schlock of the new" but about radical innovation already emerging in daily life. We are regaining respect for what people can do that technology can't. In the Bubble describes services designed to help people carry out daily activities in new ways. Many of these services involve technology -- ranging from body implants to wide-bodied jets. But objects and systems play a supporting role in a people-centred world. The design focus is on services, not things. And new principles -- above all, lightness -- inform the way these services are designed and used. At the heart of In the Bubble is a belief, informed by a wealth of real-world examples, that ethics and responsibility can inform design decisions without impeding social and technical innovation.
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We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, “In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World”. These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centred on technology, so it would be no small matter if "tech" ceased to be an end-in-itself in our daily lives. Technology is not going to go away, but the time to discuss the end it will serve is before we deploy it, not after. We need to ask what purpose will be served by the broadband communications, smart materials, wearable computing, and connected appliances that we're unleashing upon the world. We need to ask what impact all this stuff will have on our daily lives. Who will look after it, and how? ”In the Bubble” is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now -- not in a remote science fiction future; it's not about, as he puts it, "the schlock of the new" but about radical innovation already emerging in daily life. We are regaining respect for what people can do that technology can't. In the Bubble describes services designed to help people carry out daily activities in new ways. Many of these services involve technology -- ranging from body implants to wide-bodied jets. But objects and systems play a supporting role in a people-centred world. The design focus is on services, not things. And new principles -- above all, lightness -- inform the way these services are designed and used. At the heart of In the Bubble is a belief, informed by a wealth of real-world examples, that ethics and responsibility can inform design decisions without impeding social and technical innovation.
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April 2005, London
April 2005, London
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Design Theory
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Dream bridges / traumbrucken
Dream bridges / traumbrucken
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Alle Brucken sind Traume, Visionen, Metaphern - dieser Band zeigt 25 Bruckenprojekte und Bruckenrealisierungen Wolfdietrich Ziesels, eines der fuhrenden Bauingenieure Europas, unter anderen die mit dem Adolf-Loos-Preis ausgezeichnete Brucke Hackinger Steg in Wien.Ziesel setzt asthetische Anforderungen meisterlich konstruktiv um. Er entwickelt vor den Augen des Lesers(...)
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Alle Brucken sind Traume, Visionen, Metaphern - dieser Band zeigt 25 Bruckenprojekte und Bruckenrealisierungen Wolfdietrich Ziesels, eines der fuhrenden Bauingenieure Europas, unter anderen die mit dem Adolf-Loos-Preis ausgezeichnete Brucke Hackinger Steg in Wien.Ziesel setzt asthetische Anforderungen meisterlich konstruktiv um. Er entwickelt vor den Augen des Lesers(...)
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Dream bridges / traumbrucken
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Alle Brucken sind Traume, Visionen, Metaphern - dieser Band zeigt 25 Bruckenprojekte und Bruckenrealisierungen Wolfdietrich Ziesels, eines der fuhrenden Bauingenieure Europas, unter anderen die mit dem Adolf-Loos-Preis ausgezeichnete Brucke Hackinger Steg in Wien.Ziesel setzt asthetische Anforderungen meisterlich konstruktiv um. Er entwickelt vor den Augen des Lesers jeweils optimale Konstruktionen unter realen Bedingungen in kreativen Entwurfsprozessen, und ermutigt dazu, Ingenieurbaukunst zu wagen.Sechs Essays, darunter von Jorg Schlaich, Gunther Feuerstein und Otto Kapfinger, runden das Spannungsfeld zwischen kreativer und technischer, okonomischer und poetischer Herausforderung an Entwerfer und konstruktiv Interessierte ab.
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Alle Brucken sind Traume, Visionen, Metaphern - dieser Band zeigt 25 Bruckenprojekte und Bruckenrealisierungen Wolfdietrich Ziesels, eines der fuhrenden Bauingenieure Europas, unter anderen die mit dem Adolf-Loos-Preis ausgezeichnete Brucke Hackinger Steg in Wien.Ziesel setzt asthetische Anforderungen meisterlich konstruktiv um. Er entwickelt vor den Augen des Lesers jeweils optimale Konstruktionen unter realen Bedingungen in kreativen Entwurfsprozessen, und ermutigt dazu, Ingenieurbaukunst zu wagen.Sechs Essays, darunter von Jorg Schlaich, Gunther Feuerstein und Otto Kapfinger, runden das Spannungsfeld zwischen kreativer und technischer, okonomischer und poetischer Herausforderung an Entwerfer und konstruktiv Interessierte ab.
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March 2005, New York
March 2005, New York
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Engineering Structures
Engineering Structures
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With over 1,200 illustrations, plans and detail drawings, "Constructing architecture" is a veritable encyclopedia for anyone interested in the essential technical information needed for building and construction, regardless of design style. This systematically organized book is divided into sections on materials, building components, building types, case studies and a(...)
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With over 1,200 illustrations, plans and detail drawings, "Constructing architecture" is a veritable encyclopedia for anyone interested in the essential technical information needed for building and construction, regardless of design style. This systematically organized book is divided into sections on materials, building components, building types, case studies and a(...)
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Materials and Lighting
Materials and Lighting
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July 2005, Basel, Boston, Berlin
July 2005, Basel, Boston, Berlin
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Constructing architecture : materials, processes, structures : a handbook
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With over 1,200 illustrations, plans and detail drawings, "Constructing architecture" is a veritable encyclopedia for anyone interested in the essential technical information needed for building and construction, regardless of design style. This systematically organized book is divided into sections on materials, building components, building types, case studies and a catalog of components, all drawn to a common scale, providing everything the professional or the student might need to transform their designs into built projects. Underlying this practical book is a respect for the primacy of design, the belief that building is not simply a fact of engineering or technology, but the translation and culmination of a creative act that can only be successfully completed if the technical principles of construction are well understood.
Constructing architecture : materials, processes, structures : a handbook
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With over 1,200 illustrations, plans and detail drawings, "Constructing architecture" is a veritable encyclopedia for anyone interested in the essential technical information needed for building and construction, regardless of design style. This systematically organized book is divided into sections on materials, building components, building types, case studies and a catalog of components, all drawn to a common scale, providing everything the professional or the student might need to transform their designs into built projects. Underlying this practical book is a respect for the primacy of design, the belief that building is not simply a fact of engineering or technology, but the translation and culmination of a creative act that can only be successfully completed if the technical principles of construction are well understood.
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July 2005, Basel, Boston, Berlin
July 2005, Basel, Boston, Berlin
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Materials and Lighting
Materials and Lighting
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The early twentieth century witnessed a transition from wood to timber construction, from log houses to dimensioned post and beams dressed for frame building. The subsequent development of laminated timber and new joinery techniques made wood a viable alternative to steel and concrete, and led to a number of awe-inspiring structures that captured, and continue to capture,(...)
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The early twentieth century witnessed a transition from wood to timber construction, from log houses to dimensioned post and beams dressed for frame building. The subsequent development of laminated timber and new joinery techniques made wood a viable alternative to steel and concrete, and led to a number of awe-inspiring structures that captured, and continue to capture,(...)
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Developments in timber design engineering : the Swiss contribution
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The early twentieth century witnessed a transition from wood to timber construction, from log houses to dimensioned post and beams dressed for frame building. The subsequent development of laminated timber and new joinery techniques made wood a viable alternative to steel and concrete, and led to a number of awe-inspiring structures that captured, and continue to capture, the public imagination. One center of imaginative timber construction has been Switzerland, whose engineers, architects, and carpenters have provided fundamental knowledge and inspiration for builders in wood around the world. Developments in Timber Construction focuses not only on the best timber structures in Switzerland, but also on numerous international projects built by Swiss architects and engineers.
Developments in timber design engineering : the Swiss contribution
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The early twentieth century witnessed a transition from wood to timber construction, from log houses to dimensioned post and beams dressed for frame building. The subsequent development of laminated timber and new joinery techniques made wood a viable alternative to steel and concrete, and led to a number of awe-inspiring structures that captured, and continue to capture, the public imagination. One center of imaginative timber construction has been Switzerland, whose engineers, architects, and carpenters have provided fundamental knowledge and inspiration for builders in wood around the world. Developments in Timber Construction focuses not only on the best timber structures in Switzerland, but also on numerous international projects built by Swiss architects and engineers.
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July 2005, Basel
July 2005, Basel
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Timber Construction
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Kazunari Sakamoto : houses
Kazunari Sakamoto : houses
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This monograph on Kazunari Sakamoto's houses, the first published, contains plans and detailed drawings specially prepared by the editors of the renowned German technical magazine "Detail", as well as large-format high-quality photographs.
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This monograph on Kazunari Sakamoto's houses, the first published, contains plans and detailed drawings specially prepared by the editors of the renowned German technical magazine "Detail", as well as large-format high-quality photographs.
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Architecture Monographs
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March 2005, Munich
March 2005, Munich
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Kazunari Sakamoto : houses
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This monograph on Kazunari Sakamoto's houses, the first published, contains plans and detailed drawings specially prepared by the editors of the renowned German technical magazine "Detail", as well as large-format high-quality photographs.
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This monograph on Kazunari Sakamoto's houses, the first published, contains plans and detailed drawings specially prepared by the editors of the renowned German technical magazine "Detail", as well as large-format high-quality photographs.
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March 2005, Munich
March 2005, Munich
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Architecture Monographs
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Frank Gehry - MARTa Herford
Frank Gehry - MARTa Herford
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Located at the center of the German furniture manufacturing industry, Marta, the latest European Museum by Frank O. Gehry, opened in December 2004 to universal acclaim. Conceived as a laboratory for redefining the relationship between art, design, and industry, this Gehry masterwork houses art galleries, a library, educational facilities, and conference and cultural(...)
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Located at the center of the German furniture manufacturing industry, Marta, the latest European Museum by Frank O. Gehry, opened in December 2004 to universal acclaim. Conceived as a laboratory for redefining the relationship between art, design, and industry, this Gehry masterwork houses art galleries, a library, educational facilities, and conference and cultural(...)
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Frank Gehry - MARTa Herford
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Located at the center of the German furniture manufacturing industry, Marta, the latest European Museum by Frank O. Gehry, opened in December 2004 to universal acclaim. Conceived as a laboratory for redefining the relationship between art, design, and industry, this Gehry masterwork houses art galleries, a library, educational facilities, and conference and cultural meeting rooms. While the gallery is, for Gehry, an uncharacteristic neutral white cube, it is wrapped in a series of bulging curvatures creating a dome that announces his distinctive architectural signature. This book, which contains previously unpublished material on the design and construction of the museum, offers insight into the working process of arguably the world's most famous architect, and his ideas about the shifting boundaries between industry, design, art, and architecture.
Frank Gehry - MARTa Herford
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Located at the center of the German furniture manufacturing industry, Marta, the latest European Museum by Frank O. Gehry, opened in December 2004 to universal acclaim. Conceived as a laboratory for redefining the relationship between art, design, and industry, this Gehry masterwork houses art galleries, a library, educational facilities, and conference and cultural meeting rooms. While the gallery is, for Gehry, an uncharacteristic neutral white cube, it is wrapped in a series of bulging curvatures creating a dome that announces his distinctive architectural signature. This book, which contains previously unpublished material on the design and construction of the museum, offers insight into the working process of arguably the world's most famous architect, and his ideas about the shifting boundaries between industry, design, art, and architecture.
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March 2005, Basel
March 2005, Basel
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There may be no more conspicuous sign of luxury (some might say decadence) than an over-the-top design of that most utilitarian of spaces, the lavatory. Restaurants, hotels, clubs, and similar clients have increasingly seen the restroom as a manifestation of corporate culture and an expression of their attitude toward customers or employers, as well as an easy buzz(...)
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There may be no more conspicuous sign of luxury (some might say decadence) than an over-the-top design of that most utilitarian of spaces, the lavatory. Restaurants, hotels, clubs, and similar clients have increasingly seen the restroom as a manifestation of corporate culture and an expression of their attitude toward customers or employers, as well as an easy buzz(...)
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Commercial interiors, Building types
Commercial interiors, Building types
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March 2005, Basel
March 2005, Basel
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Flush! : modern toilet design
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There may be no more conspicuous sign of luxury (some might say decadence) than an over-the-top design of that most utilitarian of spaces, the lavatory. Restaurants, hotels, clubs, and similar clients have increasingly seen the restroom as a manifestation of corporate culture and an expression of their attitude toward customers or employers, as well as an easy buzz generator. "Flush!" is a book for anyone with more than a mere passing interest in concepts for comfort when nature calls, and includes over 40 examples of innovative design for washrooms and a survey of the latest trends in restroom design. An introduction with examples from history - including film, art, and literature - provides an entertaining introduction to the culture of the lavatory.
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There may be no more conspicuous sign of luxury (some might say decadence) than an over-the-top design of that most utilitarian of spaces, the lavatory. Restaurants, hotels, clubs, and similar clients have increasingly seen the restroom as a manifestation of corporate culture and an expression of their attitude toward customers or employers, as well as an easy buzz generator. "Flush!" is a book for anyone with more than a mere passing interest in concepts for comfort when nature calls, and includes over 40 examples of innovative design for washrooms and a survey of the latest trends in restroom design. An introduction with examples from history - including film, art, and literature - provides an entertaining introduction to the culture of the lavatory.
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March 2005, Basel
March 2005, Basel
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Commercial interiors, Building types
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If there is a new language of contemporary design, surely it is pattern. Evocative, hypnotizing, sensual, calming, jarring, soothing patterns cover, conceal, and reveal an astonishing range of emotions and are at home on a chair or lamp as they are on the facades of enormous buildings. ''Patterns in design'' examines this new trend, illustrating it with work by design(...)
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If there is a new language of contemporary design, surely it is pattern. Evocative, hypnotizing, sensual, calming, jarring, soothing patterns cover, conceal, and reveal an astonishing range of emotions and are at home on a chair or lamp as they are on the facades of enormous buildings. ''Patterns in design'' examines this new trend, illustrating it with work by design(...)
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Materials and Lighting
Materials and Lighting
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August 2005, Basel
August 2005, Basel
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Patterns in design, art and architecture
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If there is a new language of contemporary design, surely it is pattern. Evocative, hypnotizing, sensual, calming, jarring, soothing patterns cover, conceal, and reveal an astonishing range of emotions and are at home on a chair or lamp as they are on the facades of enormous buildings. ''Patterns in design'' examines this new trend, illustrating it with work by design luminaries like Hella Jongerius, Tord Moontje, Michael Lin, Olaf Nicolai, and Sauebruch and Hutton. Along the journey, the reader will experience a diversity of colors, shapes, and applications, as well as new technologies like laser engraving and digital milling that promise an even bolder future for patterns.
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If there is a new language of contemporary design, surely it is pattern. Evocative, hypnotizing, sensual, calming, jarring, soothing patterns cover, conceal, and reveal an astonishing range of emotions and are at home on a chair or lamp as they are on the facades of enormous buildings. ''Patterns in design'' examines this new trend, illustrating it with work by design luminaries like Hella Jongerius, Tord Moontje, Michael Lin, Olaf Nicolai, and Sauebruch and Hutton. Along the journey, the reader will experience a diversity of colors, shapes, and applications, as well as new technologies like laser engraving and digital milling that promise an even bolder future for patterns.
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August 2005, Basel
August 2005, Basel
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Materials and Lighting
Materials and Lighting
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The curtain wall—a non-bearing wall attached to a building's structural frame like a curtain made of metal or, more likely glass—is an omnipresent feature of contemporary architecture. Variations of pattern and color, transparency and opacity offer the architect almost limitless design possibilities, a tremendous palette for "skinning" the structural frame of buildings(...)
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The curtain wall—a non-bearing wall attached to a building's structural frame like a curtain made of metal or, more likely glass—is an omnipresent feature of contemporary architecture. Variations of pattern and color, transparency and opacity offer the architect almost limitless design possibilities, a tremendous palette for "skinning" the structural frame of buildings(...)
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Curtain walls : recent developments by Cesar Pelli & Associates
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The curtain wall—a non-bearing wall attached to a building's structural frame like a curtain made of metal or, more likely glass—is an omnipresent feature of contemporary architecture. Variations of pattern and color, transparency and opacity offer the architect almost limitless design possibilities, a tremendous palette for "skinning" the structural frame of buildings from museums to skyscrapers.There are few practitioners of curtain wall design as accomplished as Cesar Pelli & Associates, and this book presents twenty of their most exemplary projects.
Curtain walls : recent developments by Cesar Pelli & Associates
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The curtain wall—a non-bearing wall attached to a building's structural frame like a curtain made of metal or, more likely glass—is an omnipresent feature of contemporary architecture. Variations of pattern and color, transparency and opacity offer the architect almost limitless design possibilities, a tremendous palette for "skinning" the structural frame of buildings from museums to skyscrapers.There are few practitioners of curtain wall design as accomplished as Cesar Pelli & Associates, and this book presents twenty of their most exemplary projects.
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July 2005, Basel
July 2005, Basel
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
