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Constructing building enclosures : architectural history, technology and poetics in the postwar era / edited by Clifton Fordham.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Building--Details.
- Building.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 268 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Clifton Fordham is a registered architect and Assistant Professor at Temple University, where he teaches building design and building technology. His current focusisbuillding enclosures with an emphasison how their design relates to the sun. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture and Howard University.
- Contents:
- Framing enclosures. Cladding the Palazzo Lavoro: Pier Luigi Nervi and "The Borderline Between Decoration and Structure" / Thomas Leslie
- The United Nations Secretariat, Its Glass Facades and Air-conditioning, 1947-1950 / Joseph M. Siry
- Assembling constructions. Bill Hajjar's Air-Wall: A Mid-Twentieth Century Four-Sided Double Skin Facade / Ute Poerschke and Mahyar Hadighi
- Enclosure as Ecological Apparatus: Biosphere 2's "Human Experiment" / Meredith Sattler.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 13, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Constructing building enclosures
- ISBN:
- 9780429296963
- 0429296967
- 9781000081800
- 100008180X
- 9781000081824
- 1000081826
- 9781000081848
- 1000081842
- Publisher Number:
- 40030144027
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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