Still looking for a reason to pick up your copy of 2021 Lee Nelson Book Award winner Reglazing Modernism: Intervention Strategies for 20th-Century Icons? If so, the most recent issue of APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology offers a great teaser.
Focusing on the Zeche Zollverein case study, the two-page excerpt highlights the authors’ critical assessment of the multiple glazing interventions completed as part of the renovation efforts at the former coal mine in Essen, Germany. Most of the buildings on the property, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001, were “reused for permanent cultural and historical purposes.” And because “each building was treated differently,” the complex is “a showcase of façade refurbishment at its best.”
Co-authored by AYON Studio Principal Angel Ayón, Reglazing Modernism contains 19 more case studies and was reviewed in a previous issue of APT Bulletin last year. Whether your interest in Modern architecture is your passion or your profession (or both!), make sure to purchase the full book for the full story behind interventions to the steel-framed glazing assemblies on other Modern icons (and World Heritage sites) throughout the US and Europe, such as Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Fagus Factory and Bauhaus Dessau, both also in Germany.
Also offering information on emerging technologies that may offer higher performance in the future, Reglazing Modernism won APT’s 2021 Lee Nelson Book Award, presented every three years to the best book-length work on preservation technology.