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Topics regarding quality of glass, its processing and its application in building. 

glass seen from an ultimate architectural point of view

I am a bit confused why over the past couple of hundred years glass has not been developed to more closely meet the needs of modern architecture. Architecturally we are still using heavy, dark materials and methods centuries old. Theoretically, if created in the correct shape, size, and process, glass could be used structurally as it is 10 times stronger than steel. The paradym also has been to try and get the bubbles out of glass. Perhaps with the emphasis on putting bubbles into glass it could be superinsulating as well, with