Architectural glass

As glass architecture refers to a beyond the usual measure large-scale use of the building material of glass as an architectural design element The glass architecture begins with the industrial production of larger flat glass in the middle 18th century, allowing the transition from leaded to the wooden window frames for a whole disk, and limited initially at stately verandas, pavilions, orangeries ( greenhouses) and the like. At facades it is - especially in combination with steel or aluminum - a style feature of modern architecture.

Examples

Bauhaus Dessau, 1926

Contemporary Glass Architecture