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 ...

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 ...

While some of Chicago’s late 19th-century tall buildings, such as the Reliance Building at State and Washington streets, were predominantly glass, it wasn’t until the arrival of Mies van der Rohe and ...

Taking place in an important archeological excavation site and monument dated from the 2nd Century, built on the ruins of another house of the Hellenistic period, the show features 12 wide format ...

Vitro Architectural Glass has signed a multi-year research agreement to scale up LionGlass, a new, patent-pending glass technology invented at Penn State, for use in flat glass applications across ...

It’s hard to quibble with the initial premise of this year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial. It’s titled “SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change,” and that certainly seems to describe our ...