Great Windows in Modern Architecture

ISBN-13: 9780367358167 / Miękka / 2024 / 256 str.

UK) Adams Kevin (Kalm Architecture LLP

Opis

This book explores how the act of detailing and situating windows in buildings is a key proponent in the language of architecture. It investigates 18 case studies to define what makes these windows ‘great’ and how each window is situated within both its technical and philosophical context and as an overall development of modern architecture.

Spis treści

Introduction: What is a window?  1. Bauhaus School, Dessau  2. Brunswick Park Primary School Assembly Hall  3. La Maison de Verre  4. S.C. Johnson Administration Building and Research Tower  5. Villa Tugendhat  6. The Klein Studio  7. The Gipsoteca Canoviana  8. Säynätsalo Town Hall  9. Fisher House  10. Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Education Centre  11. Swee Saw Hock Student Centre  12. CEPT School of Architecture  13. Hostelets Civic Centre  14. Dipoli Student Centre  15. Higgins Hall Centre, Pratt Institute  16. The Dominican Monastery of Sainte Marie de La Tourette  17. Whitney Museum of American Art (currently Frick Madison)  18. Sydney Opera House

O autorze

Kevin Adams is a Teaching Fellow at Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA), a practising architect and the founding principal of kalm architecture.