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5.0 out of 5 stars About This Book, October 30, 2008
This review is from: Featherweights: Light, Mobile, and Floating Architecture (Architecture in Focus) (Hardcover)
A large format trade paperback, released without dustcover. 160 pp on heavy stock with over 200 color illustrations. Glossary, Endnotes, and a Selected Bibliography.

Table of Contents Highlights

5 Pioneers of Light Architecture
- Building With Light: Bruno Taut's Glass Fantasies
- Light and Heavy: Eero Saarinen's Trans World Airlines Terminal
- Geometry: Richard Buckminster Fuller's Visions
- Master of the Universe: Archigram's Pencil Revolution
- Escaping from Slab Construction: Ulrich Muther

Lightweight Construction
- Bubble: Frei Otto
- Werner Sobek

Membranes and Light Materials
- Richard Rogers' Millenium Dome
- Membraines Over Plush
- Andreas Heller's LiebesLeben and SehnSucht
- Benno Bauer's Culture Center

Inflatable Architecture

Modern Nomads
- Shigeru Ban's Curtain Wall House
- A House on Wheels
- Moritz Hauschild's Summerhous Projects

Building a World of Bits and Bytes
- Architectural Animations
- Gehry's Deutsche Genossenschafts Bank
- Johannes Herold's Archivision Project
- Views of the Future of the City

Architecture in Space
- Richard Horden's and Andreas Vogler's Space Design Project
- Room With a View

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