Aesthetics in Glass Structures

For the last thousand years glass has been the surface through which light, but not rain or wind, has entered buildings, revealing the internal spatial art of architecture, and allowing the outside to be seen from within, and vice versa. Glass as architecture, or glass architecture, began its legitimacy during the Gothic period, when use of the sun and skylight to illuminate storytelling in stained glass gave glass its apotheosis. The 21st century is at the dawn of another glass renaissance brought about by the intelligent synthesis of art, nature and technology where decoration is performance and performance is decoration and is dynamic rather than static. The combination of visual and moral aesthetics gives glass, uniquely placed as a material inextricably linked to light and energy, unbounded opportunities to be developed within new architectural aesthetics.