"This book is the first to present a coherent guide to the construction and design of structural glass skins. The focus is on the pressure-resistant and flat load-bearing plate as a basic module for wide-span roof structures. The functional and structural forms of multifaceted, self-supporting glass enclosures are comprehensively illustrated and systematically explained. The designs presented exhibit new aesthetic qualities, based not on the dictum of "dematerialization" but on the poetry of luminous and diaphonous planes. They ring in a new chapter in glass architecture."--BOOK JACKET
Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-253