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:
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.

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.

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.

Added entries:

Cohen, Jean-Louis.
Moeller, Gerard Martin.

Holdings:

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