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OverviewThe most significant research conducted on concrete architecture in the United States from 1940 to 1970. The affirmation of reinforced concrete and the kinds of space generated by its structures is one of the most fascinating and revolutionary chapters in the history of twentieth-century architecture and engineering. This richly illustrated, three-volume essay offers the first complete overview of all the most significant research conducted in concrete in the United States from 1940 to 1970. It includes the greatest architects of the time, from Frank Lloyd Wright to I.M. Pei, Louis Kahn, Emery Roth & Sons, and others. The analysis of the works presented on the pages of the three books reconstructs the most important inventions in the use of concrete, whether reinforced or not, prefabricated or cast in place, used in the form of skeleton, walls, columns, blocks, or panels. The book also includes a chapter on a new kind of ornament, permitted by special plastic products applied to formwork, and other chapters dedicated to the different processing techniques used to obtain various surface textures. It enters the complex theoretical universe of truths and lies, upon which the greatest architects have debated through the manipulation of concrete. Finally, it guides readers up to the decline of the creative force of structures. A New Era of American Architectural Concrete not only offers the first exhaustive history of an architectural technique that was decisive in the United States, but also a new vision of twentieth-century American architecture. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Roberto GargianiPublisher: Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes Imprint: Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes Dimensions: Width: 18.20cm , Height: 7.10cm , Length: 26.10cm Weight: 2.956kg ISBN: 9782889154029ISBN 10: 2889154025 Pages: 890 Publication Date: 01 March 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of Contentsprologue Surface Finishes by the Book: The Accomplishments of Architectural Concrete chapter one. The Self-Built Construction of Wright and Residential Fabrication Systems Wright’s Desert Concrete: Toward a Constructional Primitivism Textile and Concrete Blocks for the Usonian Houses The Experimental Residential Construction of Rudolph and Goldberg The Monolithic Houses of Le Tourneau and IBEC The Lift Slab Method by Youtz & Slick and by the Vagtborg Corporation chapter two. The Primitive Frame of Mies Beauty is the Splendor of Truth: Mies’s Chicago Debut Belluschi’s Equitable Building: The Copy The Promontory Apartments: The Degree Zero of the New Chicago Frame Prototype Variations Affordable Housing in Chicago, or the Miesian Aesthetic chapter three. Prestressing and New Structures for Concrete Prestressed Girders and the Walnut Lane Bridge Wright’s Butterfly Bridge and Soleri’s Tubular Bridge The Helio-Laboratory Tower in Racine Pei and Severud’s Structure for the Helix Apartment Tower chapter four. Kahn’s Space Frame The Tetrahedron Floor System and Béton Brut of the Yale Art Gallery Growth, Stratification, and Groove: The Impossible Monolith A Space Frame for the City Hall Building chapter five. Effects of Scale and Prestressing: Works by SOM and Mies Goldsmith: Superstructure and Bracing Learning from Nervi SOM’s Quest for an Expressive Structure The Bridges and Prestressed Girders of SOM and Khan New Paths of Gravity: Goldsmith and Lin Mies’s Reinforced Trilith chapter six. The Skyscrapers of Mies, Kahn, and Wright The Unclear Structure of Mies and Severud for the Seagram Building Johnson and the Enigma of Diagonal Bracing Kahn’s Tower of Triangular Concrete Frames The Richards Laboratories: Prefabrication and Post-Tensioning Wright’s Tripod Frame Construction and Molded Ornament The Illinois Mile-High Cantilever Sky-City chapter seven. Architectural Concrete Variations, from Breuer to Saarinen Mo-Sai Precast Concrete Cladding Panels The Bush-Hammered Concrete of Breuer and the Sandblasting of Anshen & Allen The Ineffable Material Substance of Saarinen’s Concrete SOM’s Experiments for a Concrete Skyscraper Rudolph, Pei, Harrison & Abramovitz, and Prefabricated Panels Saarinen’s rubble aggregate concrete Applied ornament versus texture: plastic and transfersReviewsAuthor InformationRoberto Gargiani has published several works on Perret, Le Corbusier, Labrouste, Semper, and Brunelleschi. He previously taught the history of architecture in Florence, Rouen, Paris, and Rome. He is currently professor of the history of architecture and construction at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne’s (EPFL) School of Architecture. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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