Title & Author:

Solid states : concrete in transition / Michael Bell and Craig Buckley, editors.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2010.

Description:

280 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm + 1 DVD (4 3/4 in.).

Series:

Columbia books on architecture, engineering, and materials

Notes:
[This] " is the second book in the series that has emerged from the annual Columbia Conference on Architecture, Engineering and Materials ... [and] is edited from an academic conference sponsored by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) in collaboration with the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University"--Acknowledgments, p.272.
DVD features highlights from the conference held at Columbia University.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Mark Wigley -- Preface / Christian Meyer -- Introduction / Michael Bell -- Essays : Earth as urban laboratory / Jean-Louis Cohen ; Pervasive plasticity Detlef Mertins ; Concrete: dead or alive? / Sanford Kwinter ; Modelmaking rangers: form-makers in action at Eero Saarinen & Associates / Pierluigi Serraino ; Reinforced concrete and modern Brazilian architecture / Carlos Eduardo Comas ; Notes on weight and weightlessness / Steven Holl -- Projects : Horizontal skyscraper: continuous city, continuous garden / Steven Holl : Vanke Center Shenzen, China ; Concrete, or the betrayal of geometry / Preston Scott Cohen : Nanjing University Performing Arts Center, Nanjing, China; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel ; Tower and temperament / Jesse Reiser + Nanako Umemoto : O-14, Dubai, United Arab Emirates ; A circular journey / Stanley Saitowitz, mason Walters, and Stephen Marusich : Congregation Beth Sholom, San Francisco, California ; São Paulo: a reinforced context / Angelo Bucci : Houses in Ribeirão Preto and Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil -- Structural engineering + material science : Exposed concrete: design, engineering, and performance / Werner Sobek + Heiko Trumpf ; Magical structuralism / Guy Nordenson ; From wire mesh to 3-D textiles: progress in new reinforcements for ferrocement and thin-cement composites / Antoine E. Naaman ; Engineering in Cuba / Ysrael A. Seinuk ; Nanotechnology in concrete / Surendra P. Shah ; Ultra-high-performance concrete in highway transportation infrastructure / Benjamin A. Graybeal ; Form over mass: light concrete structures / Hans Schober -- Energy + Sustainability : Concrete and sustainable development / Christian Meyer ; An integrated energy and comfort concept: Zollverein School of Management and Design, Essen, Germany / Matthais Schuler ; Green concrete and sustainable construction: a multiscale approach / Paul Monteiro ; The hypergreen path / Jacques Ferrier -- Cultural effects : Materialization of concepts / Bernard Tschumi ; The state of concrete: an investigation of concrete in China / Qingyun Ma ; Living with infrastructure / Marc Mimram ; Opportunity in transition: the reinventing of concrete / Toshiko Mori ; Implicit performance: exploring the hybrid condition / Juan Herreros ; Solidifications / Fernando Menis ; A building and its double / Mabel Wilson ; Cloaked transparency: land port of entry at Massena, New York / Laurie Hawkinson ; Artificial natures, new geographies / Kate Orff ; Concrete becoming plastic, then graphic / Neil M. Denari.
System requirements for accompanying disc: Windows; Adobe Acrobat reader; DVD player.

Summary:

Accompanying DVD, entitled Solid states : changing time for concrete / produced and directed by Michael Blackwood, contains ... "highlights from the conference 'Solid states : changing time for concrete' held at Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) in 2008"--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9781568988955 (alk. paper)
1568988958 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Concrete construction Congresses.
Architecture, Modern 21st century Congresses.
Construction en béton Congrès.
Architecture 21e siècle Congrès.
Architecture, Modern.
Concrete construction.

Form/genre:

Conference publications.
Optical disks.
DVDs.
Video recordings (physical artifacts)
Conference papers and proceedings.

Added entries:

Bell, Michael (Michael J.)
Buckley, Craig.
Columbia University. Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.
Columbia University. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Columbia books on architecture, engineering, and materials.

Concrete in transition

Holdings:

Location: Library main 270559
Call No.: BIB 203360
Status: Available