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Architecture, modern, Walls, Modern Architecture, Curtain wallsShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Contemporary curtain wall architecture
2009, Princeton Architectural Press
in English
1568987978 9781568987972
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Pt. I. A history of the curtain wall as concept and construct. The Chicago frame and the dilemma of the wall
Visions of a transparent future
The mid-twentieth-century curtain wall
New directions and new priorities
Pt. II. Performance and technique. Curtain wall system design
Building envelope as selective filter
Pt. III. Case studies. Introduction
The new 42nd Street studios / Platt Byard Dovell White
Melvin J. and Claire Levine Hall / KieranTimberlake Associates
One Omotesando / Kengo Kuma and Associates
William J. Clinton Presidential Center / Polshek Partnership Architects
Green-Wood Mausoleum / Platt Byard Dovell White
LVMH Osaka / Kengo Kuma and Associates
Seattle Public Library / Office for Metropolitan Architecture and LMN Architects
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research / Architects Alliance and Behnisch Architekten
Torre Agbar / Ateliers Jean Nouvel
Torre Cube / Estudio Carme Pinós
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision / Neutelings Riedijk Architects
Skirkanich Hall / Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
Trutec Building / Barkow Leibinger Architekten
Biomedical Science Research Building / Polshek Partnership Architects
ATLAS Building / Rafael Viñoly Architects
Blue Tower / Bernard Tschumi Architects
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art / Steven Holl Architects
The New York Times Building / Renzo Piano Building Workshop and FXFOWLE Architects
Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies / Krueck-Sexton Architects
United States Federal Building / Morphosis
Yale Sculpture Building / KieranTimberlake Associates
The Cathedral of Christ the Light / Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Eleventh Avenue / Ateliers Jean Nouvel
Perry Street / Asymptote
Acknowledgments
Illustration credits
Bibliography
Index.
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