Featherweights
Light, Mobile and Floating Architecture
Oliver Herwig

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Editor(s)

Oliver Herwig

Publication

Munich ; Berlin ; London ; New York : Prestel Verlag, 2003

Scope

160 Pages, illustrated, 29 cm.

ISBN

3791328565

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Architecture has been moving towards lightness since the beginning of the twentieth century. As new building materials become available, and as land disappears, architects have focused on efficiency, impermanence and flexibility in structures. Featherweights traces the evolution of lightness in architecture from the fantastic glass structures of the early twentieth century to the latest hi-tech materials for the third millennium.From Bruno Taut’s glass house to the Crystal Palace, geodesic domes to the Millennium Dome, this exploration of lightness in architecture explains how and why the movement began, and shows where it will take us in the future.

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Person as subject

Bruno Taut, Buckminster Fuller, Archigram, ...[et al.]

Keywords

ecology , sustainist architecture

Remarks

Incl. Bibliographical References