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Concrete.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parnell, Stephen.
- Series:
- Object Lessons Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Concrete.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2026.
- Summary:
- Love it or loathe it, concrete is everywhere. It is not smart like silicon and has no self-respect like steel. But concrete is the material of modernity, the insignia of progress, the world's most ubiquitous artificial material.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- 1 Introduction
- History
- The Idea of Progress
- 2 Structure
- Utopia
- Brasilia
- Housing
- Khrushchevkas
- Mobility and Carparkitecture
- 3 Space
- Creating and Connecting Space
- Terrestrial and Celestial Space
- Spatial Materialization of Sound
- As-Found Space: Skatopias and Parkour
- 4 Surface
- Obstacles and Canvases
- Material Morality
- Pretty Concrete and Sgrafitto
- Flexible Formwork
- 5 Solid
- Bunkers
- Sculptural and Monumental
- Megastructures
- 6 Society
- Conflict and Corruption
- Postcolonial Concrete
- Ruinlust
- Concrete the Destroyer
- 7 Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 9781501383717
- OCLC:
- 1597391798
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