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Contemporary curtain wall architecture
Title
Contemporary curtain wall architecture [electronic resource] / Scott Murray.
ISBN
9781568987972 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1568987978 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c2009.
Physical Description
264 p. : ill. (some col.), plans ; 32 cm.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 21, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-261).
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 / 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.
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