Constructing building enclosures : architectural history, technology and poetics in the postwar era /: architectural history, technology and poetics in the postwar era. (2020)
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- Book
- Title:
- Constructing building enclosures : architectural history, technology and poetics in the postwar era /: architectural history, technology and poetics in the postwar era. (2020)
- Main Title:
- Constructing building enclosures : architectural history, technology and poetics in the postwar era
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Clifton Fordham.
- Editors:
- Fordham, Clifton
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Enclosure Expanded Clifton Fordham PART 1 Framing Enclosures 1 Cladding the Palazzo Lavoro: Pier Luigi Nervi and "The Borderline Between Decoration and Structure." Thomas Leslie 2 The Decorative Modernism of Aluminium Cladding: Architecture and Industry Tait Johnson 3 The United Nations Secretariat, Its Glass Facades and Air-conditining, 1947-1950 Joseph M. Siry 4 Victor Lundy, Walter Bird, and the Promise of Pneumatic Architecture Whitney Moon 5 Saarinen’s Shells: The Evolved Influence of Engineering and Construction Rob Whitehead 6 Coenesthetic Comfort: Between Climate and the Body Andrew Cruse PART 2 Assembling Constructions 7 Responsive Modernism: Louis Kahn’s Weiss Residence Enclosure Clifton Fordham 8 Intent vs. Interpretation: the Prosaic Poetics of Leweremtz & Nyberg Matthew Hall 9 "The Material of the Future": Precast Concrete at the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair Tyler S. Sprague 10 The Concrete Facades of Paul Rudolph’s Christian Science Building, 1965-1986 Scott Murray 11 Bill Hajjar’s Air-Wall: A Mid-Twentieth Century Four-Sided Double Skin Facade Ute Poerschke and Mahyar Hadighi 12 Defining the Double-Skin Facade in the Post-war Era Mary Ben Bonham 13 Enclosure as Ecological Apparatus: Biosphere 2’s Far-From-Equilibrium "Human Experiment" Meredith Sattler Index
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 721
Building -- Details
Building materials
Facades - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781000081848
9781000081800
9781000081824
9780429296963 - Related ISBNs:
- 9780367276287
9780367276256 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.515483
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