Inhalt -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From Wall to Façade -- Solid wall construction -- Warm façade, cold façade -- Openings in solid wall construction -- Bridging the gap -- Single glazing -- Box window -- Insulated glazing -- Walls with skeletal structure -- Half-timbered construction -- Platform and balloon framing -- Resolution of the wall into loadbearing structure and façade -- Post-and-beam façade -- Post façade -- Beam façade -- Curtain wall -- System façade -- Double façades -- Second-skin façade -- Box-window façade -- Corridor façade -- Shaft-box façade -- Alternating façade -- Integrated façade -- 3 Principles of Construction -- Areas of construction -- Façade bearing structures and load transfer -- Grid and positioning of the façade within the building -- Systems used in façade construction -- Post-and-beam construction -- Unit system façade -- Designing with systems -- Openings in façade constructions -- Hardware -- Windows -- Assembly -- 4 Detailing and Tolerances -- Building grid and positioning of components -- Combination of functions -- Detailing principles -- Layering of details -- Examples of detail development -- Masonry cladding -- Post-and-beam façade -- Unit system façade -- Parapet -- Plinth unit -- Joints -- Tolerances -- 5 Climate and energy -- Façade as interface to the exterior -- Functional requirements -- Thermal requirements -- Visual requirements -- Hygienic requirements -- Acoustic requirements -- Regulating the comfort level with the façade -- Ventilation -- Heating -- Cooling -- Sun and glare protection -- Light-directing systems -- 6 Adaptive Façades -- Sun -- Light -- Heat -- Greenhouse effect -- History of adaptive façades -- Collector façade -- Trombe wall -- Transparent heat insulation -- Exhaust-air façade -- Double façade -- Box-window façade -- Shaft-box façade -- Corridor façade.

Second-skin façade -- Alternating façade -- Integrated façade -- 7 Case Studies -- Rear-ventilated façade Concept House, RDM Campus, Rotterdam -- Solid façade State Archive Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duisburg -- Post-and-beam façade New building for the Department for Architecture and Interior Design at the University of Applied Sciences, Detmold -- Unit system façade Headquarters Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich -- 8 A Look Into the Future -- Material and construction -- Climate, comfort, energy -- Production and assembly -- (Design) tools -- Authors -- Selected bibliography -- Index -- Illustration credits.