Glass

= GLASS = ==== The glass is a Hard, transparent material commonly used in windows and decorating objects. There isn’t an accurate time where the Glass was made, but this material was found in Egypt and also in Mesopotamia. The glass was first used for windows in the Roman imperial times. Other technique used is stained glass that it’s colored and mostly used on the windows of the churches and temples. As an Art expression the glass when Constantine allow to the cristian built churches and start using colored glass for a meaningful decoration in the windows and also structure. The rose windows are a great type of decorating style where you can admire in Europe, for example in Notre Dame. Other method using the glass in architecture since 1980 is the curtain wall windows. In this type of structure covers all the exterior with glass and the most famous building with this type of process is the Seagram building in California. ====

= = ==== In Venezuela the glass is very common material for many decorative objects, such as mosaics for many purposes, the windows, the doors, in any part of the house, also in buildings and structures. But this is not a very practical material because our tropical weather, because the sun warms the building and goes right trough the glass. ====