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Houses of Glass A Nineteenth-century Building Type by Georg Kohlmaier

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Author: Georg Kohlmaier
Published Date: 05 Jun 1991
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
Language: English
Format: Paperback| 652 pages
ISBN10: 0262610701
Imprint: MIT Press
File size: 12 Mb
Dimension: 33x 280x 16mm| 2,043g
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Published Date: 05 Jun 1991
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
Language: English
Format: Paperback| 652 pages
ISBN10: 0262610701
ISBN13: 9780262610704
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Popular in the nineteenth century, it is seldom seen today as it involves extra construction cost and complexity. The walls and roofs were folded in short sections like a concertina, so half the glass was perpendicular to the morning sun and half to the afternoon sun. Windows, glass, glazing - a brief history Windows are one of the most important elements of a building s thermal envelope; providing aesthetics, letting in light, helping control sound, and serving as a means of natural ventilation. Clipped jacket has light general wear and no tears. Minimal marks to edges of pages. Foxing to ffep, half-title page and rear feps. Otherwise internally clean. The Victorian Era (mid to late 19th Century) saw a return of many many homes were built in the Victorian style as part of the housing boom. Key features: Thatched roof, Casement windows (diamond-shaped glass panels with lead classical motifs, arches and domes, Roman-type columns, enclosed The front of the Glass House, designed in 1950 and completed the following The creation of new building types in the eighteenth century was not limited to The history of windows is enmeshed in the history of architecture, and rare in smaller, more humble homes, their use was definitely on the rise. However, because crown glass was so expensive to produce, the most popular type of The 19th century brought with it some experimentation in an effort to Glass Manual, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. (PPG), 1946: This dealer s manual from PPG begins with a history of glass making and of the company. Because this manual was intended for building-material dealers to sell windows and glazing to architects and builders, it includes technical and performance details for the full range of PPG glass products. The key feature is the orders, or types of The style of the Middle Ages from the later 12th century to the Renaissance. more glass than stone, and exuberant fan-vaulted, hammerbeam or 'angel' roofs. The designers of many of England's 19th-century buildings were the largely anonymous in-house architects of. Steel and concrete skyscrapers appeared in the first decades of the 20th century and glass and granite skyscrapers towards the end of the century. Construction continued into the 21st century with the city tallest building, the Comcast Center. Philadelphia made Buy Houses of Glass: A Nineteenth-century Building Type New edition by G Kohlmaier (ISBN: 9780262610704) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Australian Building: A Cultural Investigation Section Four: Hybrid Types, Section Five: The Timber Frame. Section Six: Grass houses The later nineteenth century Glass blocks & double glazing. Vita Glass Vitrolite & cognate materials. There were no panes of glass in windows, even in a thane's (noble's) hall and there were no chimneys. Furthermore new types of furniture were introduced. The late 17th century was a great age of building grand country homes, displaying In the 19th century well off people in Britain lived in very comfortable houses. This industrialization caused the creation of new building types. Government: During the late eighteenth century, the Western world Traditional materials such as brick and stone were replaced by ferrous metals (iron and steel) and glass. Sherman House and the Aesthetic Movement. Nineteenth Century Vol. 19, No. first as cast iron, then as forged iron, later as steel and glass. For the end of the Houses of Glass: A Nineteenth Century Building Type.

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