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architectural history, technology and poetics in the postwar era
Framing enclosures. Cladding the Palazzo Lavoro: Pier Luigi Nervi and "The Borderline Between Decoration and Structure" / Thomas Leslie -- The United Nations Secretariat, Its Glass Facades and Air-conditioning, 1947-1950 / Joseph M. Siry -- Assembling constructions. Bill Hajjar's Air-Wall: A Mid-Twentieth Century Four-Sided Double Skin Facade / Ute Poerschke and Mahyar Hadighi -- Enclosure as Ecological Apparatus: Biosphere 2's "Human Experiment" / Meredith Sattler.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Clifton Fordham is a registered architect and Assistant Professor at Temple University, where he teaches building design and building technology. His current focusisbuillding enclosures with an emphasison how their design relates to the sun. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture and Howard University.