1st Edition
Translucent Building Skins Material Innovations in Modern and Contemporary Architecture
By Scott Murray
Copyright 2013
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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Exploring the design of innovative building enclosure systems (or skins) in contemporary architecture and their precedents in earlier twentieth century modern architecture, this book examines the tectonics, the history and the influence of translucency as a defining characteristic in architecture. Highly illustrated throughout with drawings and full colour photographs, the book shows that... Read more
Introduction: Transparency / Translucency / Opacity 1. Solidified Light 2. Art House 3. Crystallization 4. Compound Lens 5. Geology 6. Bioluminescence 7. Fade to Black
Biography
Scott Murray is an architect and Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois, USA. He is the author of Contemporary Curtain Wall Architecture.
‘…an eye-opening, thought-expanding, beautiful work’ Harvard Magazine, May-June 2013
