Glass construction manual
"The Glass Construction Manual outlines the basis for design. It provides information on strength, loadbearing behaviour, structures, fixing details and surface finishes, likewise building science, types of glass, energy gains, standards and directives. A large section is devoted to examples of the successful use of glass, from the simple but well-conceived window to the extravagant all-glass structure, ensuring that this book covers the complete spectrum of the contemporary use of this materia…
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- Full title :Glass construction manual / Balkow [and others].
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"The Glass Construction Manual outlines the basis for design. It provides information on strength, loadbearing behaviour, structures, fixing details and surface finishes, likewise building science, types of glass, energy gains, standards and directives. A large section is devoted to examples of the successful use of glass, from the simple but well-conceived window to the extravagant all-glass structure, ensuring that this book covers the complete spectrum of the contemporary use of this material."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Publication Date:©1999.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Birkhäuser
- Place of Publication:Basel
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1999.
The Physical Object
- Description:328 pages : : illustrations (some color) ; : 31 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:3764360771, 9783764360771, 0817660771, 9780817660772
- oclc:ocm42296301
- LC Classification:TH1560
- Dewey Decimal:691/.6
Table of Contents
Glass in architecture -- From the origins to classical modernism / Gerald Staib -- Glass architecture in the second half of the 20th century / Christian Schittich -- Principles -- Glass as a building material / Dieter Balkow -- Designing with glass-strength and loadbearing behaviour / Werner Sobek and Mathias Kutterer -- Glass and energy-construction physics / Matthias Schuler -- Construction details -- Build examples / Christian Schittich, Gerald Staib.
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