CONSTRUCTING BUILDING ENCLOSURES Architectural History, Technology and Poetics in the Postwar Era

CONSTRUCTING BUILDING ENCLOSURES Architectural History, Technology and Poetics in the Postwar Era

"Constructing Building Enclosures investigates and interrogates tensions between the disciplines of architecture and engineering as they wrestled with technology and building cultures that evolved to deliver structures in the modern era. At the center of this history are inventive architects, e...

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Other Authors: Fordham, Clifton (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Routledge 2021
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Building > Details
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Table of Contents:
  • Framing enclosures. Cladding the Palazzo Lavoro: Pier Luigi Nervi and "The Borderline Between Decoration and Structure" / Thomas Leslie
  • The United Nations Secretariat, Its Glass Facades and Air-conditioning, 1947-1950 / Joseph M. Siry
  • Assembling constructions. Bill Hajjar's Air-Wall: A Mid-Twentieth Century Four-Sided Double Skin Facade / Ute Poerschke and Mahyar Hadighi
  • Enclosure as Ecological Apparatus: Biosphere 2's "Human Experiment" / Meredith Sattler.

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