Contemporary curtain wall architecture [[electronic resource] /] / Scott Murray |
Autore | Murray Scott (Scott Charles), <1971-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Princeton Architectural Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
Disciplina | 721/.2 |
Soggetto topico |
Architecture, Modern
Curtain walls |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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 / architectsAlliance 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 -- 100 Eleventh Avenue / Ateliers Jean Nouvel -- 166 Perry Street / Asymptote. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457609203321 |
Murray Scott (Scott Charles), <1971-> | ||
New York, : Princeton Architectural Press, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Translucent building skins : material innovations in modern and contemporary architecture / / Scott Murray |
Autore | Murray Scott (Scott Charles), <1971-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (201 p.) |
Disciplina | 721/.2 |
Soggetto topico |
Curtain walls
Transparency in architecture Architecture - Technological innovations |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-203-10153-7
1-136-23568-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction: Transparency / Translucency / Opacity; 1 Solidified Light; 2 Art House Cinema; 3 Crystallization; 4 Compound Lens; 5 Geology; 6 Bioluminescence; 7 Fade to Black; Acknowledgments; Summary of Primary Architects; Notes; Bibliography; Illustration Credits; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462948403321 |
Murray Scott (Scott Charles), <1971-, > | ||
Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|