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Contemporary Concrete Buildings
Contributor(s): Jodidio, Philip (Author)
ISBN: 3836564939     ISBN-13: 9783836564939
Publisher: Taschen
OUR PRICE:   $22.50  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Language: French
Published: October 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Architecture | Buildings - General
- Architecture | History - Contemporary (1945 -)
- Architecture | Methods & Materials
Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
Physical Information: 1.7" H x 5.9" W x 7.7" (2.70 lbs) 632 pages
 
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Concrete? That characterless stuff of parking lots or Communist tower blocks, right? Well, yes. And no. Concrete is actually a name applied to a remarkably wide range of building substances, and, when properly handled, is one of the noble materials of contemporary architecture. A kind of "liquid stone" at the outset, it is malleable, durable, and capable of prodigious feats of engineering.

This Bibliotheca Universalis edition highlights the best work done in concrete of recent years. It includes such stars as Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, and Steven Holl, but also surprising new architects like the Russians SPEECH and artists such as James Turrell, who turned the famous concrete spiral of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim in New York into the setting of one of his most remarkable pieces.

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Contributor Bio(s): Jodidio, Philip: - Philip Jodidio a étudié l'histoire de l'art et l'économie à l'université Harvard et a été rédacteur en chef du magazine Connaissance des Arts pendant plus de vingt ans. Chez TASCHEN, ses publications incluent la série Architecture Now! ainsi que des monographies sur Tadao Ando, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel, Shigeru Ban, Oscar Niemeyer et Zaha Hadid.