Concrete and Culture

作者:Forty, Adrian

页数:304

出版时间:2012-6

价格:$ 45.20

isbn号码:9781861898975

图书标签:建筑建筑材料设计建筑史艺术人类学人文建筑技术史建筑系

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Almost three tons of concrete are produced each year for every person on the planet; only water is consumed more per head of population. Now used almost universally in modern construction, concrete polarizes opinion: provoking intense loathing and even nausea in some, it is regarded by others with a messianic passion. Concrete and Culture breaks new ground by studying concrete's effects on culture rather than its technical properties. Adrian Forty examines the ways concrete has changed our understanding of 'nature', of time, even of 'material'. While the book concentrates upon architects' responses to concrete, because they have had most to say about the medium, it also takes into account the role concrete has played in politics, in literature, in cinema, in labour-relations, and in present day arguments about sustainability. Politicians, entrepreneurs, clerics, photographers, artists, and filmmakers have all taken advantage of concrete for purposes of their own. Covering Europe, North America, South America and the Far East, Concrete and Culture asks to what degree concrete has been responsible for modernist uniformity and looks at the debates it has engendered. The first reflection on the global consequences of concrete, the book offers a new way of looking at our environment over the past one hundred years.

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Forty investigates the development of concrete architecture and discusses the general perspectives upon it, and how they changed over time. He offers interesting facts and interpretations of concrete as a modern material, which inspire us to see concrete architecture in a new, insightful way.

果真是研究什么的人都有.....Forty首先是个建筑史学家 他写到一半的时候似乎突然读到了类似We have never been mordern之类的书然后就懵逼了。我意思是他很多概念 比如mordenity 从未被解释 而他似乎也一直在不同可能性之间摇摆。另外混凝土建筑大多数实在是真·“丑”。

Paradox and uniqueness of concrete

Forty investigates the development of concrete architecture and discusses the general perspectives upon it, and how they changed over time. He offers interesting facts and interpretations of concrete as a modern material, which inspire us to see concrete architecture in a new, insightful way.

Forty investigates the development of concrete architecture and discusses the general perspectives upon it, and how they changed over time. He offers interesting facts and interpretations of concrete as a modern material, which inspire us to see concrete architecture in a new, insightful way.