Translucency - Light made material -- Glass as a building material -- The material -- Types of glass -- Properties of glass -- The glass facade -- Glass panes -- Surface Treatments -- Multi-layered glass -- Insulating glass -- Structural glass -- Glass skeleton construction -- Structural gluing -- Armoured laminated glass -- GRP-glass composite systems -- Plastic- Semi-finished sheet products -- Manufacture -- Materials and properties -- Standard semi-finished products -- Individual design possibilities -- The dream of free form -- Everything possible in the future? -- Membrane materials in structural engineering -- Membrane materials -- Surface coatings -- Requirements and applications -- Material properties -- Coated fabrics -- Sheeting -- Building with ETFE sheeting -- Construction principles -- Manufacture and processing -- Mechanical properties -- Building physics properties -- Planning -- Assembly -- Approval for use -- Assessment -- Diaphanous metals -- Diaphanous metal building envelopes -- General points -- Metallic materials -- Alloys -- Surfaces -- Diaphanous semi-finished sheet products -- Metal fabrics -- Appendix -- Standards -- List of manufacturers -- Glass -- Plastics -- Membranes -- Metal -- Subject index -- Picture credits.