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Blurred Transparencies in Contemporary Glass Architecture
Blurred Transparencies in Contemporary Glass Architecture brings to light complex readings of transparent glass through close observations of six pivotal works of architecture. Written from the perspectives of a practitioner, the six essays challenge assumptions about fragility and visual transparency of glass. A material imbued with idealism and utopic vision, glass has captured architects’ imagination, and glass’s fragility and difficulties in thermal control continue to present technical challenges. In recent decades, architecture has witnessed an emergence of technological advancements in chemical coating, structural engineering, and fabrication methods that resulted in new kinds of ...
The Challenge of Change
Conservation of architecture - and the conversation of Modern architecture in particular - has assumed new challenges. Rather than attempting to return a Modern building to its resumed original state, the challenge of these proceedings is to revalue the essence of the manifold manifestations of Modern architecture and redefine its meanings in a rapidly changing world of digital revolution, worldwide mobility and environmental awareness. This volume aims to provide a variety of platforms for the exchange of ideas and experience. A large, international group of architects, historians, scholars, preservationists and other parties involved in the processes of preserving, renovating and transform...
Comparative Arbitration Practice and Public Policy in Arbitration:Eighth International Arbitration Congress, New York 1986
Preface --Welcoming Letters and Addresses --Guest Address --Working Group I Comparative Arbitration, Practice, Hypothetical Case --Working Group II Public Policy in Arbitration.
