By Jean-Louis Cohen
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Produced at a expense of five billion cubic yards in keeping with yr, concrete is the second one most generally ate up substance in the world, after water. it really is ubiquitous and simply taken with no consideration because the stuff of sidewalks and roads, energy vegetation and parking garages. Concrete is usually, even though, a well-liked fabric of state of the art architects and engineers, who worth not just its versatility and energy yet its limitless power for creative expression. A hybrid substance made of cement, water, sand, and mineral aggregates, concrete—or liquid stone—has no intrinsic shape. within the fingers of gifted designers, its final visual appeal is dictated via the framework into which it's poured and the colour, texture, or development utilized to its floor.
In a chain of essays via most sensible architects, engineers, and students, Liquid Stone explores the character of concrete, its previous and destiny, from technical, creative, and old views. Over thirty structures by way of prime foreign architects together with Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Norman Foster, and Santiago Calatrava are provided via special descriptions, pictures, and technical drawings.
The publication concludes with "The way forward for Concrete," a bankruptcy on newly rising fabrics. right here self-consolidated, ultra-high-performance, and translucent concrete are illustrated, introducing the following new release in concrete know-how and suggesting new instructions for either structure and engineering.
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3 “Fünf Punkte einer neuen Architektur,” in Alfred Roth, Zwei Wohnhäuser von Le Corbusier und Pierre Jeanneret (Stuttgart: F. Wedekind & Co, 1927). 4 Bruno Reichlin, “the Pros and Cons of the Horizontal Window: The Perret-Le Corbusier Controversy,” Daidalos 13 (September 1984): 71–82. 5 Manuscript held in the Perret Archive, Institut Français d’Architecture, Paris. 6 Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock, The International Style: Architecture since 1922 (New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1932): 40, 58, 72.
Le Corbusier’s maisons Jaoul in Neuilly (1954) and Sarabhai in Ahmedabad (1956) used concrete vaults supported by thick brick walls, in complete opposition to the image of the flying roof built for his chapel at Ronchamp. And Louis I. , Centre National des Industries et des Techniques, La Défense, 1958 Figure 20 Louis I. Kahn, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 1967 Modern Architecture 31 Richards Laboratories in Philadelphia of 1961, relied for his Indian Institute of Management buildings, also in Ahmedabad (1967), on extremely limited tensile elements of concrete inserted into the brick walls of the scheme, acknowledging the current condition of the building industry in India.
7 Francis S. , 1928). 8 Sigfried Giedion, Building in France, Building in Iron, Building in Ferroconcrete, introduction by Sokratis Georgiadis, trans. J. : The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1995); originally published as Bauen in Frankreich, bauen in Eisen, bauen in Eisenbeton (Leipzig and Berlin: Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1928). 9 Le Ciment-roi: Réalisations architecturales récentes. Ossatures, formes, ornements (Paris: Librairie de La Construction moderne, 1927). 10 Cent ans de béton armé, 1849–1949 (Paris: Science et industrie, 1950), inside back cover.