ENGINEERED TRANSPARENCYThe Technical, Visual, and Spatial Effects of Glass

Edited by Michael Bell and Jeannie Kim

Glass has reemerged as a novel architectural material, offering new and previously unimaginable modes of visual pleasure and spatial experience. Despite the critical role glass has played in modern architecture in the last century, we have yet to fully comprehend the cultural and technological effects of this complex and sophisticated building material. Engineered Transparency brings together an extraordinary, multidisciplinary group of international architects, engineers, manufacturers, and critics to collectively reconsider glass within the context of recent engineering and structural achievements.

2008 / 272 pp / 505 color + 160 b/w / 978-1-56898-798-9 / hc / $65.00