May qualify for learning hours through most Canadian architectural associations. This course takes a look at channel glass and steel curtain wall glazing systems and their role in design. The course ...

Glass in architecture is ever-present, yet largely in the background. The light passes through, our gaze looks out, but rarely is the glass itself an element to engage. Architects, engineers and ...

As architectural design continues to evolve, so too must the materials and systems that shape the modern building envelope. This course introduces architects to innovative, non-traditional façade ...

Glass Bridge at Corning Museum of Glass (2024). (Courtesy of Polyhedral Structures Lab, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania) The following research, including my own work, highlight ...

NEW YORK, Oct. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bendheim's channel glass, manufactured by Glasfabrik Lamberts of Germany, now carries both an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) and a Health Product ...

Design’s wonder material is also one of its most common: glass. Over the years, manufacturers have found ways to improve the fragile material’s physical properties to tune its strength, clarity, and ...

In design theory, extensive use of Glass is often avoided on south-facing facades in the Northern Hemisphere (or north-facing facades in the Southern Hemisphere) due to the risk of heat gain caused by ...

Long Island is home to one of the most prominent architectural glass industries in the country, encompassing huge state-of-the-art computerized glass-cutting factories servicing skyscrapers and small ...

Nowadays, new technologies for the treatment of glass provide new ways to use this material in architecture. Applied indoors, specifically in retail stores, glass in its different textures, colors, ...

Solaria Corporation’s ‘PowerVision’ series of customized architectural solar (BIPV), power generating glass solutions for building facades that can enable net zero energy or meet ‘WELL’ building ...