Concrete
The Vision of a New Architecture, Second Edition
Format:Hardback
Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press
Published:10th May '04
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Provides a history of construction and examines the theories on its architectural expression, focussing on the determining role of the reinforced concrete frame. This book argues that Auguste Perret provides the first rational and effective expression of classical principles in modern construction.Concrete, Peter Collins's first book, is an avowedly polemical and controversial combination of two studies: the origins and evolution of reinforced concrete and the life and work of the seminal French architect, Auguste Perret.
"This is exemplary historical writing, readable, compact, shrewd, and full of new material. We have to thank Peter Collins for having produced a first complete pre-history of reinforced concrete that looks as if it will be very difficult to supersede ... No one who appreciates good scholarship, good writing and cogent argument could fail to take pleasure in all but a few pages of the book." Reyner Banham in The Architectural Review, 1960
ISBN: 9780773525634
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 920g
472 pages