Facades : Building Envelopes for the 21st Century

Facades : Building Envelopes for the 21st Century

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Book Description
This volume presents facade concepts combining specific ideas and solutions with exceptional architecture, technology, functionality, and construction, which constitute a striking feature of urban development. It provides a comprehensive overview of the technical possibilities afforded by modern building skins, looking at some 186 international examples and innovative plans by renowned architects including WS Atkins & Partners, Murphy/Jahn, Richard Meier & Partners, Daniel Libeskind, Ingenhoven Overdiek, Gehry Partners, BRT Architekten, Foster and Partners.

Facades: Building Envelopes for the 21st CenturyBirkhauser,Dirk U. Hindrichs,Birkhauser,3764370610,Architecture,General,Interior Design - General,Architectural structure & design,Non-Classifiable

Book Contents:

1. Facadism
2. Fassaden Atlas
3. Furniture + Architecture (Architectural Design)
4. Good Housekeeping's Book on the Business of Housekeeping: A Manual of Method
5. Heresiography in Context: Hippolytus' Elenchos As a Source for Greek Philosophy (Philosophia Antiqua)
6. Historical Studies in Japan: Japan at the Xviith International Congress of Historical Sciences in Madrid (VII, 1983-1987)
7. Humanism in the Renaissance of Islam: The Cultural Revival During the Buyid Age
8. III Geschichte Von Stadten Und Volkern - Horographie Und Ethnographie: Commentary on Nos. 608A-608 by C.W. Fornara (Die Fragmente Der Grieschischen Historiker)
9. In Detail: Interior Spaces (Spanish edition) : Space, Light, Material
10. Integrity and Moral Relativism (Philosophy of History and Culture)

Book Contents

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