Half-timbered construction is the first construction technique of ethnic architecture that has features of industrial construction. Historical half-timbered buildings consisted of a wooden frame and wattle coated with clay. The study is valuable in providing the history of half-timbered architecture with glass filling. Later, the frame material was replaced by cast iron, steel, other metals, reinforced concrete, and the filling material was replaced by natural stone, brick, waxed paper and, finally, glass. Frame-based architecture with glass filling has a number of unique properties. Among them are the fluidity of space, transparency, ephemerality, the effects of mirroring, dematerialization, mimicry, hiding the outer shell, hovering, and seeing through. The study revealed the following features of half-timbered buildings with glass filling: spatio-temporal dynamics of rhythm and immersion. The promising future of architecture on a half-timbered structural basis using various frame and filling materials as an analogue-antagonist of stone architecture is substantiated. The study describes specific examples of architectural objects with their attributions, based on half-timbering using new building materials. The special urban planning function of such buildings is substantiated..