Colours of Architecture: Coloured Glass in Contemporary Buildings

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Why is colored glass the big new feature in architecture? A leader in the movement offers his ideas on why this style—which stands as a major break from the mostly monochrome glass that dominated buildings for the past 50 years—has become so popular. More than 325 full-color photos showcase the world’s most vibrant examples in contemporary art and architecture, displaying both indoor and outdoor uses of glass throughout the world. Key design techniques are exhibited, including screen-printed enamels, pigmented lamination, and film on glass, as well as the new artist’s media of enamels on glass, slumped and fused glass, and sandblasting.

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Andrew Moor is an architectural glass art consultant. His London-based practice, Andrew Moor Associates, has been managing glass installations, from conception to completion, for nearly 20 years, both in the UK and elsewhere. He has an unusually wide experience of every stage of the design, manufacture, and installation of glass art. His first book, Contemporary Stained Glass (Mitchell Beazley), was published in 1989 and has become the definitive book on stained glass of the 1980s. His second book, Architectural Glass Art, was published in 1997 and has inspired artists, architects, and interior designers alike. Andrew Moor has lectured on glass to most of the major architectural and design practices in the UK, and to practices in the USA and Canada. He works and lives in London with his wife and three children.