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Contemporary Curtain Wall Architect Scott Murray
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

However, a treasure trove of software, products and technology is available to help the modern architect create more ideas, better communication techniques and jaw-dropping presentations. The future, he stated, lies in the architectural flexibility and attractability of glass and aluminum. This also allowed us to surmount the challenge of the dominant rear wall.” Image courtesy SHH Architects. She gets inside the architecture by focusing almost exclusively on the curtain wall, as the curtain wall is what sets this box apart from its neighbors and the curtain wall is all that most members of the public will ever see of the building. New York's edition features 80 buildings, 100 architects and four itineraries: Downtown Architecture, Art and Design Walk; The Center: Midtown Drift; Unorthodox Modern; and Contemporary Curtain Walls. Space in your building that disappears until you get to the lobby of Disney Hall; second, I noticed the thickness of materials for your external wall—how wide concrete poured in the cathedral moves to the nominal thickness of a curtain wall, and then to a thin stainless panel. [1] The only publication on Mies before 1950 was Philip Johnson's exhibition catalogue Mies van der Rohe, published by the Museum of Modern Art in 1947. I am beginning to see a parallel between what was happening in Spain in the 1950s and the optimistic mentality of decades of architecture in Spain and in contemporary discourse in general. Architecture, Planning and Urban Design – San Antonio, Texas. [2] When I directed the 1977 exhibition The Seagram Plaza: Its Design and Use in .. And connect it to the landscape, thereby filling the spatial needs of modern man.” [34] Mies had first proposed the curtain wall with projects of 1921 and 1922 for glass skyscrapers in Berlin that electrified the world of architecture. What is charming and replicable about her first ten years as reviewer is the immediacy of her experience of so many great works of modern architecture: the Whitney Museum, the CBS Building, the glass canyons of Park Avenue, the . At the individual scale, architectural detail and discerning material selection and color palette create familiar yet contemporary textures and surfaces. Project galleries · Karnes County Offices The two buildings have been connected with a contemporary curtain-wall element. Recent years have seen a rapidly growing interest among contemporary architects in the use of curtain walls to create innovative, attention-grabbing building.