Contemporary curtain wall architecture
By: Scott Murray.
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781568987972
Subjects: Architecture, Modern; Curtain walls
Description: "In Contemporary Curtain Wall Architecture, building-technology historian and architect Scott Murray traces the evolution of the curtain wall, from early skeleton-frame structures of the past to today's complex and technologically advanced configurations. Presenting twenty-four detailed case studies of exemplary structures completed in the last decade, he reveals the curtain wall as one of the most enduring and malleable concepts of contemporary architecture, capable of adapting intelligently to site constraints, utilizing resources efficiently, and offering unprecedented opportunities for innovations in digital design and fabrication, material detailing, and aesthetic expression."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Pt. I. A history of the curtain wall as concept and construct. The Chicago frame and the dilemma of the wall; title: Visions of a transparent future; title: The mid-twentieth-century curtain wall; title: New directions and new priorities; title: Pt. II. Performance and technique. Curtain wall system design; title: Building envelope as selective filter; title: Pt. III. Case studies. Introduction; title: The new 42nd Street studios / Platt Byard Dovell White; title: Melvin J. and Claire Levine Hall / KieranTimberlake Associates; title: One Omotesando / Kengo Kuma and Associates; title: William J. Clinton Presidential Center / Polshek Partnership Architects; title: Green-Wood Mausoleum / Platt Byard Dovell White; title: LVMH Osaka / Kengo Kuma and Associates; title: Seattle Public Library / Office for Metropolitan Architecture and LMN Architects; title: Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research / Architects Alliance and Behnisch Architekten; title: Torre Agbar / Ateliers Jean Nouvel; title: Torre Cube / Estudio Carme Pinós; title: Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision / Neutelings Riedijk Architects; title: Skirkanich Hall / Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects; title: Trutec Building / Barkow Leibinger Architekten; title: Biomedical Science Research Building / Polshek Partnership Architects; title: ATLAS Building / Rafael Viñoly Architects; title: Blue Tower / Bernard Tschumi Architects; title: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art / Steven Holl Architects; title: The New York Times Building / Renzo Piano Building Workshop and FXFOWLE Architects; title: Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies / Krueck-Sexton Architects; title: United States Federal Building / Morphosis; title: Yale Sculpture Building / KieranTimberlake Associates; title: The Cathedral of Christ the Light / Skidmore, Owings and Merrill; title: Eleventh Avenue / Ateliers Jean Nouvel; title: Perry Street / Asymptote; title: Acknowledgments; title: Illustration credits; title: Bibliography; title: Index.