Glass Construction Manual / / Christian Schittich, Gerald Staib, Dieter Balkow, Matthias Schuler, Werner Sobek.
Glass offers a wide variety of possible applications for the realization of even the most ambitious designs in architecture, and in the past two decades it has experienced an unparalleled burst of innovation. For planners, this means working constantly with this high-performance material. In compact...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2012] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part 1 Glass in architecture
- From the origins to classical modernism
- Glass architecture from the Modern Movement to the present day
- Part 2 Principles
- Glass as a building material
- Designing with glass – strength and loadbearing behaviour
- Glass and energy – building performance
- Part 3 Construction details
- 3.1 Fixings for glass
- 3.2 Openings
- 3.3 Architectural details
- Part 4 Case studies
- Case studies 1–42
- Appendix
- Statutory instruments, directives and standards
- Further reading
- Index
- Index of names
- Picture credits