Title & Author:

Liquid stone : new architecture in concrete / Jean-Louis Cohen and G. Martin Moeller, Jr., editors.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2006.

Description:

248 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Published following an exhibition held at the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., June 2004-Jan. 2006 and a symposium held at the School of Architecture, Princeton University in 2004.
Also published in French by Le Moniteur under title: Architectures du béton, nouvelles vagues, nouvelles recherches.
Includes bibliographical references (page 245) and index.
Essays. Architecture and technology : two centuries of creative tension / Antoine Picon ; Modern architecture and the saga of concrete / Jean-Louis Cohen ; A material without a history / Adrian Forty ; The semantics of exposed concrete / Réjean Legault -- Designs and buildings. Structure : concrete theater / Guy Nordenson ; Surface : surface as substance / Tod Williams and Billie Tsien ; Sculptural form : reinforced concrete and the morality of form / G. Martin Moeller, Jr. ; The future of concrete : what's the matter with concrete? / Franz-Josef Ulm.
Includes text by Réjean Legault.
Includes a project by Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects for the Mission Hill Family Estate, Westbank, B.C.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"In Liquid Stone architects, engineers, and scholars explore the changing nature of concrete from both technical and aesthetic perspectives. More than thirty buildings by leading international architects such as Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Norman Foster, and Santiago Calatrava demonstrate through detailed descriptions, photographs, and technical drawings the remarkable new architectural and engineering accomplishments taking form at present and the promising future of this dynamic medium."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents

ISBN:

9783764374839
9781568985701 (alk. paper)
1568985703 (alk. paper)
3764374837 (Birkhauser)

Subject:

Concrete construction.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architecture, Modern.
Construction en béton.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects
Mission Hill Family Estate (Winery : Westbank, B.C.)

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.

Added entries:

Cohen, Jean-Louis.
Moeller, Gerard Martin.
National Building Museum (U.S.)
Princeton University. School of Architecture
Legault, Réjean, 1956-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 247209
Call No.: NA4125 .L57 2006
Status: External loan