Transparent Plastics
Design and Technology
Recent years have seen the construction of buildings made of plastic, structures that are as attractive as they are unusual. After initial experiments in the 1970s, plastic is currently experiencing a tremendous boom. Originally used for temporary structures like the BMW Pavilion in Frankfurt, it is now employed in many permanent buildings as well, including the recent Catholic church in Radebeul by Staib/Behnisch. Prominent international avant-garde architects such as Shigeru Ban and Herzog & de Meuron frequently use transparent plastic for their structures. Transparent plastic seems ephemeral and thus captures the spirit of the times.…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-7643-8287-2
- EAN: 9783764382872
- Produktnummer: 14038040
- Verlag: Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 159 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Simone Jeska was born in 1965 and studied architecture at the Technische Fachhochschule in Nürnberg as well as theory and history of architecture at the ETH in Zurich. She is the author of a number of publications on architecture and is co-author of Office Buildings: A Design Manual.
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