Concrete
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (837 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0714863548 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Concrete" according to Isabelle Jolly. This was a gift for a relative, who does a lot of DIY on his property. He told me that though he had expected more text, it was very interesting just to see what has been done using concrete. The book has houses, business buildings, museums, roads, apartment buildings, and Hoover Dam.The photographs are excellent, and the text with each one is informative. Some of the structures were designed by well known architects, some lesser known. A few of the pages are not numbered when the photos take both pages. The index lists projects by na. Perfect book for a concrete nerd - or anyone who loves to be amazed! I bought this book for my father (a man who attends an annual "Concrete Banquet") and it could not have been more perfect.Gorgeous photography! Great coffee table book for concrete aficionados and the rest of us!. Gorgeous Concrete is an incredibly beautiful book. The photographs are stunning and on top of the line pages. The information is well written and interesting. Even the cover is beautiful. My brother is an architect in construction and he LOVED it.
But, as a new book from Phaidon proves, concrete can sing." - Fast Company"A gorgeously bound book, Concrete offers invaluable and fascinating insight into this dynamic material and the forms it has been used to create." - Life + Times"From the formidable fortress of Cold War-era Eastern Europe to fluid structures in South America, the uniquely adaptive materials tends to take on the emotion of its surroundings. In either design direction, however, the result is beautifully intriguing .a beautiful monograph from Phaidon." - Cool Hunting"Concrete structures and architecture gets a well deserved study in the new Concrete .Look for German skate parks, Italian rooftop tracks, and Portuguese swimming pools ." - Selectism. "The sweeping survey of buildings featured in Concrete illustrates the material's chameleonlike versatility, from the Pantheon's coffered dome to Le Corbusier's
In 1976, two years after studying architecture at UCLA, he founded WET, one of the premier avant-garde publications of the 1970s. Leonard Koren has written and designed a number of books including Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers. He lives in San Francisco. He now consults on the subject of design, aesthetics, and co
'Concrete' presents a visual exploration of the aesthetics of concrete architecture through 180 structures from ancient Rome to the present day. The book includes innovative and inspirational projects from monuments and churches to stations and cultural spaces, by some of the best architects of the last 100 years.