Engineered Transparency presents a portfolio of projects featuring cutting-edge glass designs by todaya (TM)s most innovative architects, including SANAAa (TM)s acclaimed Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art, Yoshio Taniguchia (TM)s MoMA expansion in New York City, and Steven Holla (TM)s Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, with contributions by foremost thinkers in the field of architecture and design, including: historians Kenneth Frampton, Antoine Picon, and Detlef Mertins cultural critics Beatriz Colomina, Joan Ockman, and Reinhold Martin engineers Werner Sobek, Guy Nordenson, and Richard Tomasetti and architects Kazuyo Seijima, Steven Holl, and Elizabeth Diller, Engineered Transparency redefines glass as a twenty-first-century building material and challenges our assumptions about its aesthetic, structural, and spatial potential.
