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Architecture General

Concrete

The Vision of a New Architecture

by (author) Peter Collins

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
May 2004
Category
General, Methods & Materials
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773571198
    Publish Date
    May 2004
    List Price
    $40.95

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From the Foreword by Kenneth Frampton: "Concrete remains a valuable historical text that in many respects has never been given its due. It is an unmatched pioneering history of the development of reinforced concrete up to 1914. It records and analyses the densely articulated, if provincial, English debate with respect to the aesthetic challenge posed by the increasing popularity of concrete from around 1870 onwards. Finally, until very recently it was the only readily available monograph on Auguste Perret in English. In this regard it is particularly valuable as a thorough and perceptive assessment of Perret's life and career, one that still stands as a point of departure for all current attempts to situate this seminal architect within the wider trajectory of twentieth-century culture."

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