Brak wydarzeń
Presents 30 current projects through photos, plans and diagrams that communicate a modern language of form, helping to create and shape contemporary living spaces. A provocative plea for genuinely barrier-free building and an illustrated commentary on the DIN 18025 norms round off this new standard work.
When John Ruskin attempted to disparage the Crystal Palace by referring to it as ‘a great cucumber frame’, he hit upon a truism. The Crystal Palace outdid its Victorian glasshouse contemporaries in public gardens around the world and represented the zenith of a building type that had developed spectacularly from humble horticultural roots. The Glasshouse traces the evolution of glass enclosures from the mid-seventeenth century when the desire to nurture exotic plants in a foreign and often hostile climate led to the development of the glasshouse and ingenious mechanical servicing systems, capable of creating its own artificial microclimate.
