Glass architecture
As glass architecture refers to a beyond the usual measure large-scale use of the building material glass as architectural design element. Glass architecture begins with the industrial production of larger flat glass in the middle of the 18th century, which allows the transition from lead glazing to wooden window frames for a whole pane, and thus also glazed wooden frame constructions for walls, and increasingly also roofs. This is initially limited to stately verandas , pavilions , orangeries (greenhouses) and the like. On facades it is - especially in connection with steel or aluminum - a stylistic feature of modern architecture ( main article: glass facade )
Examples
Crystal Palace London , 1851
Large Tropical House Botanical Garden Berlin , 1907
Bruno Taut , Glasshouse Pavilion at the Cologne Werkbund Exhibition, 1914
Bauhaus Dessau , 1926
Pavilion of the French industrial company Saint-Gobain , Paris World Exhibition 1937
Contemporary glass architecture
literature
- Paul Scheerbart : Glass architecture , Der Sturm publishing house , Berlin 1914.
See also
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Transparent and well insulated. In: sueddeutsche.de. May 17, 2010, accessed July 13, 2018 .
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