Elkadi, Hisham.

Cultures of glass architecture [electronic resource] / Hisham Elkadi. - Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006. - xiv, 103 p. : ill. - Design and the built environment series . - Design and the built environment series. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [93]-100) and index.

Glassworks: the history of glass and its architectural identity -- Green glass: environmental perspectives on using glass in architecture -- Glazed spaces: constructing place identity -- Shattered glass: structures of power -- Seeing through glass: a technical review -- A glazed future: rethinking identity.


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