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Author: Jan Wurm Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3764376082 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 242
Book Description
Flat glass opens up more possibilities for the planner than virtually any other material. Because of the technological complexity of using it, however, no specific structural forms have been developed for glass supporting frameworks as they have been for wood, concrete, and steel. This book is thus the first to present a coherent guide to the planning and design of glass supporting frameworks. The focus is on the pressure-resistant, flat supporting element as a basic building block for broad supporting structures. The spatial and constructive forms of multifunctional, self-supporting glass envelopes are vividly illustrated and systematically explained. The constructions presented exhibit new aesthetic qualities, based not on the dictum of "dematerialization" but on the poetry of gleaming and transparent planes. They ring in a new chapter in the history of glass architecture.
Author: Jan Wurm Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3764376082 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 242
Book Description
Flat glass opens up more possibilities for the planner than virtually any other material. Because of the technological complexity of using it, however, no specific structural forms have been developed for glass supporting frameworks as they have been for wood, concrete, and steel. This book is thus the first to present a coherent guide to the planning and design of glass supporting frameworks. The focus is on the pressure-resistant, flat supporting element as a basic building block for broad supporting structures. The spatial and constructive forms of multifunctional, self-supporting glass envelopes are vividly illustrated and systematically explained. The constructions presented exhibit new aesthetic qualities, based not on the dictum of "dematerialization" but on the poetry of gleaming and transparent planes. They ring in a new chapter in the history of glass architecture.
Author: Annette Fierro Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 9780262062336 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 356
Book Description
From the Gothic to the contemporary, glass has transformed the structural, formal and philosophical principles of artchitecture. In The Glass State, Annette Fierro views the many meanings of transparency in architecture. Specifically, she analyzes the transparent monumental buildings that were built in Paris between 1981 and 1988 as part of Francois Mitterand's program of Grands Projets. The Grands Projets provide a rare opportunity to study a finite set of buidings constructed of similar materials, in the same time period, in a specific urban landscape, and with related ideological missions.
Author: Rob Nijsse Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press ISBN: 9783764364397 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 167
Book Description
"The author, Rob Nijsse describes with great expertise designs, concepts and realized projects, in which glass elements fulfil crucial architectural tasks. In the advanced architecture of today the use of this transparent material goes well beyond self-supporting functions and comprises structural parts such as columns, walls, floors and roofs. One of the characteristic material properties of glass - to break suddenly and completely under certain conditions - seems only at first glance incompatible with the static responsibilities of structural elements; each of the construction achievements presented demonstrates how the engineer is challenged every time again to refute that assumption." "The various creative solutions, arrived at in close cooperation with some of the most interesting architects of the present, are carefully documented by a multitude of construction drawings, sketches and photographs."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Peter Rice Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 0419199403 Category : Architectural glass Languages : en Pages : 148
Book Description
This book is published in English for the first time. The first edition in French sold extremely well and this second edition has the added benefit of an 8 page colour section and nine new case studies not only from France but from Norway, London.
Author: Valerie L. Block Publisher: ASTM International ISBN: 0803134584 Category : Glass construction Languages : en Pages : 176
Book Description
This proceedings volume from the American Society for Testing and Materials contains 16 papers by industry professionals on the use of glass in buildings with an emphasis on glass design. Editor Block discusses codes and standards affecting glass in buildings in the U.S. and abroad. Other topics inc
Author: Paulo J. Cruz Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1482224615 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 2314
Book Description
Although the disciplines of architecture and structural engineering have both experienced their own historical development, their interaction has resulted in many fascinating and delightful structures. To take this interaction to a higher level, there is a need to stimulate the inventive and creative design of architectural structures and to persua
Author: Sutherland Lyall Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press ISBN: 1568983301 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 236
Book Description
Never before have engineers played such a pivotal role in the process of making architecture. Their underappreciated task is to transform the designer's vision - sometimes not much more than a cardboard model or computer rendering - into a built form of concrete, steel, glass, stone, or wood.".
Author: Freek Bos Publisher: IOS Press ISBN: 9781586038663 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 678
Book Description
Contains topics that range from glass joints, fixings and adhesives to architectural designs to the strength, stability and safety of glass. This book also covers issues such as laminates and composite designs, glass lighting, the curving and bending of glass and the many facades of glass.
Author: FrantiĊĦek Wald Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1000752240 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 1373
Book Description
For more than forty years the series of International Colloquia on Stability and Ductility of Steel Structures has been supported by the Structural Stability Research Council (SSRC). Its objective is to present the latest results in theoretical, numerical and experimental research in the area of stability and ductility of steel and steel-concrete composite structures. In Stability and Ductility of Steel Structures 2019, the focus is on new concepts and procedures concerning the analysis and design of steel structures and on the background, development and application of rules and recommendations either appearing in recently published Codes or Specifications and in emerging versions, all in anticipation of the new edition of Eurocodes. The series of International Colloquia on Stability and Ductility of Steel Structures started in Paris in 1972, the last five being held in: Timisoara, Romania (1999), Budapest, Hungary (2002), Lisbon, Portugal (2006), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2010) and Timisoara, Romania (2016). The 2019 edition of SDSS is organized by the Czech Technical University in Prague.
Author: Jan Wurm
Author: Jan Wurm
Author: Institution of Structural Engineers (Great Britain) Staff
Author: Annette Fierro
Author: Rob Nijsse
Author: Peter Rice
Author: Valerie L. Block
Author: Paulo J. Cruz
Author: Sutherland Lyall
Author: Freek Bos
Author: FrantiĊĦek Wald