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Through sheer determination and courage, Kahn has researched the nature of concrete in the form of precast, cast in place or blocks. Each of his renowned works in exposed concrete, such as the Yale Art Gallery, the Richards Laboratories, the Bath House, the Salk Institute, the National Assembly, the Kimbell Museum, the Exeter Library and the Yale Center for British Art, is itself an important chapter in the history of architecture for the exploration into concrete's formal expression, beyond the lesson of Le Corbusier. Kahn's obsession on concrete fabrication processes, on the formwork and the mix design, is systematically examined in two volumes. The authors illustrate Kahn's vision with documents that have never been revealed in other essays, drawing heavily from original sketches, plans, specifications, worksite photographs, and correspondences with collaborators, engineers, technicians and contractors. The first volume Exposed Concrete and Hollow Stones focuses on the first ten-year period of Kahn's research on concrete. Moving through the many construction systems experienced by Kahn, from the discovery of exposed concrete in the form of béton brut at the Yale Art Gallery, to the precast and poured-in-place techniques, to the values of joint, growth and ornament, the essay culminates in the reconstruction of the artistic and technical characteristics of two great worksite, the Richards Laboratories and the First Unitarian Church and School. The second volume, Towards the Zero Degree of Concrete, covers the following fourteen years and leads the reader along Kahn's path to the true "nature of concrete," focusing on his main techniques and poetic discoveries such as the "liquid stone" of the Salk Institute, the "smooth finish" at Bryn Mawr and the concept of "monolithic" at the Yale Center for British Art.

Architects --- Concrete construction. --- Architectes --- Construction en béton --- Kahn, Louis I., --- Kahn, Louis Isadore, --- Concrete. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Construction en béton --- Béton. --- Béton --- Béton armé --- Béton architectonique --- Kahn, Louis Isidore, --- Kahn, Louis Isadore --- Kahn, Louis I, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Architects - United States. --- Architectes - États-Unis. --- Kahn, Louis I, - 1901-1974 - Criticism and interpretation --- Kahn, Louis Isidore, 1901-1974 --- Kahn, Louis I, - 1901-1974

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The reemergence in the early eighteenth century of the technology and use of concrete provide the starting point for this first volume of the Treatise on Concrete. In this book are described and analyzed, for the first time, the various contributions that led to the rediscovery of concrete made by the specialists of the period, from chemists to volcanologists; from engineers to architects and construction workers; from inventors to archaeologists and even men of letters.

Concrete construction --- Concrete --- Construction en béton --- Béton --- History. --- Histoire --- Béton --- Archéologie --- Construction --- 691.3 --- Betonbouw ; geschiedenis --- Beton --- Building materials --- Building, Concrete --- Concrete building --- Construction, Concrete --- Building --- History --- Bouwmaterialen ; kunststeen, beton --- Chaux --- Ouvrage d'art --- Mortier --- Pont --- Ingénierie --- Dessin technique --- Fondations --- Coffrage --- Ciment --- Histoire des sciences et des techniques

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"During his long career, Pier Luigi Nervi has explored the potential of concrete through the cast-in-place and the prefabrication of elements in reinforced concrete or in ferrocement, a material he invented and patented during the war. All of his best known works such as the Stadium in Florence, the hangars built in Orivieto, Orbetello and Torre del Lago Puccini, the Halls of the Palazzo di Torino Esposizioni in Turin, the Unesco buildings in Paris, the Palazzetto dello Sport in Rome and the Aula per le Udienze in the Vatican represent an important chapter in the history of twentieth century architecture, structure and construction. Nervi’s passion for concrete and formwork manufacturing process is examined in a systematic manner within the volume. The authors illustrate Nervi’s creative process through the examination of unpublished designs, drawings, specifications, building sites pictures and correspondence with colleagues and collaborators." [Publisher]

Concrete construction --- Construction en béton --- Nervi, Pier Luigi --- 72.07 --- Building, Concrete --- Concrete building --- Construction, Concrete --- Building --- Nervi, Pier Luigi. --- Nervi, P. L. --- 691.328 --- Ingenieurswetenschappen en architectuur ; 20ste eeuw ; P.L. Nervi --- Ferrocement ; ferro-cement --- Sportcomplexen --- Geprefabriceerd beton --- Beton Brut --- Hangars --- Constructies ; overspanningen --- Prefab --- Architectuur ; vnl. Italië ; 20ste eeuw ; P.L. Nervi --- Nervi, Pier Luigi 1891-1979 (°Sondrio, Italië) --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- Bouwmaterialen ; gewapend beton --- Construction en béton --- Béton armé --- Histoire de la construction --- Buildings, Reinforced concrete. --- Constructions en béton armé --- Nervi, Pier Luigi,

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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, New Era of American Architectural Concrete: From Wright to SOM offers the first complete overview of all the most significant research conducted in concrete in the United States of America from 1940 to 1970, in which the greatest architects of the time were involved including Frank Lloyd Wright, I.M. Pei, Louis Kahn, Paul Rudolf, Eero Saarinen, Bertrand Goldberg, Mies van der Rohe, Myron Goldsmith, Marcel Breuer, Skidmore Owings & Merril, Walter Gropius, Roche-Dinkeloo, Minoru Yamasaki, Harrison & Abramovitz, William Pereira, 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 leads readers to the discovery of shells, from those of Wallace Neff to those of Frederick John Kiesler, John M. Johansen, Eduardo Catalano, Harrison & Abramovitz or Marcel Breuer, and to the various experiments and applications of Gunite; it then gives an introduction to the understanding of the processes of self-construction made possible by innovative technical solutions, from the "desert concrete" of Frank Lloyd Wright, to the earth-cast concrete of Paolo Soleri, or the kind of concrete masonry of the "aggregate rubble" of Eero Saarinen; it provides the critical tools and technical data to dive into the meanings of the masterpieces of Bertrand Goldberg, Roche-Dinkeloo or Philip Johnson, raised with colossal hollow columns thanks to slip forms; and it allows readers to follow the phases of the invention of the Lift-Slab method and its multiple applications, up to the works of Mies van der Rohe and his disciples. Through the pages of the book, readers will discover the birth and evolution of the most ingenious structural devices for the construction of reinforced concrete skyscrapers, through the analysis of the works and projects of Mies, SOM, Wright, Kahn, Saarinen or Pei; readers are introduced to the analysis of decisive contributions made by engineers such as Fred Severud, Tung-Yen Lin, Fazlur Rahman Khan, Frank J. Kornacker, August Komendant, Keast & Hood, Weinberg, Ammann & Whitney, Richard Bradshaw, William James LeMessurier, Weiskopf & Pickworth; the book also allows readers to learn about the role played by construction companies such as George A. Fuller Company or associations such as the Atlantic Prestressed Concrete Company.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 to obtain various surface textures, from the bush-hammering of Marcel Breuer and Anshen & Allen, to the corduroy concrete of Paul Rudolph; 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 the readers up to the temporary decline of the creative force of structures, a decline marked by the theoretical statements of Peter Eisenman and Robert Venturi, and the advent of post-modernism. These are some of the topics discussed in New Era of American Architectural Concrete, which not only offers a first exhaustive history of a technique that was decisive in the United States, but also a new vision of twentieth century American architecture.

72.03 --- 72.036 --- 691.3 --- Verenigde Staten --- Verenigde Staten van Amerika --- Architectuur (geschiedenis) --- Architectuurgeschiedenis --- 20ste eeuw (architectuur) --- Twintigste eeuw (architectuur) --- Beton --- Architecture --- Concrete construction. --- Reinforced concrete construction --- Design and construction. --- Constructions en béton --- Constructions en béton

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This book presents OFFICE projects through a critical analysis based on archive documents. It also reconstructs the influence of OFFICE's creative principles among the new generations of architects. The OFFICE projects appeared in the early 2000s and gained prominence as new forms of digital collage with a cultural engagement. The author traces the evolution of their early ideas developed as paper architecture to the current buildings of a significant scale and presence. The underlying argument of the book demonstrates OFFICE's ability to preserve in every project the spark of a theoretical construction, which in most cases is carried out according to a rigorous economy of means. Even the new monuments for public institutions continue to be illuminated by a creative tension of radical superiority.

Architecture --- Geers, Kersten, --- Van Severen, David, --- OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen (Architectural firm). --- Architectuuronderwijs ; Lausanne ; Ecole polytechnique fédéral --- Architectuur ; collages ; montages --- Architectuur ; 21ste eeuw ; Rationalisme --- Architectuur ; België ; 21ste eeuw --- Office KGDVS ; Kersten Geers ; David Van Severen --- Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen --- 72.07 --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- Severen, David van, --- OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen (Architectural firm) --- OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen --- Geers, Kersten --- Van Severen, David --- architectural firms --- OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen [Brussels] --- Projets d'architecture --- Architecture domestique --- Architecture publique --- Immeubles d'habitation --- Villas --- Rationalisme (architecture)