Liquid Stone New Architecture in Concrete 1st Edition by Jean Louis Cohen, Martin Moeller ISBN 978-1568985701 1568985703

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ISBN 10:  1568985703

ISBN 13: 978-1568985701

Author: Jean-Louis Cohen,  G. Martin Moeller

Produced at a rate of five billion cubic yards per year, concrete is the second most widely consumed substance on earth, after water. It is ubiquitous and easily taken for granted as the stuff of sidewalks and roads, power plants and parking garages. Concrete is also, however, a favored material of cutting-edge architects and engineers, who value not only its versatility and strength but its unlimited potential for imaginative expression. A hybrid substance made from cement, water, sand, and mineral aggregates, concrete—or liquid stone—has no intrinsic form. In the hands of talented designers, its ultimate appearance is dictated by the framework into which it is poured and the color, texture, or pattern applied to its surface.
In a series of essays by top architects, engineers, and scholars, Liquid Stone explores the nature of concrete, its past and future, from technical, artistic, and historical perspectives. Over thirty buildings by leading international architects including Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Norman Foster, and Santiago Calatrava are presented through detailed descriptions, photographs, and technical drawings.

The book concludes with “The Future of Concrete,” a chapter on newly emerging materials. Here self-consolidated, ultra-high-performance, and translucent concrete are illustrated, introducing the next generation in concrete technology and suggesting new directions for both architecture and engineering.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction

Essays
2. Architecture and Technology: Two Centuries of Creative Tension
3. Modern Architecture and the Saga of Concrete
4. A Material Without a History
5. The Semantics of Exposed Concrete

Designs and Buildings
6. Structure
7. Concrete Theater

Surface
8. Surface as Substance

Sculptural Form
9. Reinforced Concrete and the Morality of Form

The Future of Concrete
10. What’s the Matter with Concrete?

11. Acknowledgments

12. Selected Bibliography

13. Index

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