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'...
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.
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 ...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.(展开)
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0 有用 Bonbon 2014-02-19 08:11:40
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 ... 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. (展开)
1 有用 一口青 2022-02-16 22:11:08
本科第一年的兴趣爱好，可能是因为Forty本人在课上对混凝土的激情吸引了我
2 有用 照夜白 2022-06-14 05:21:51
非常有意思的切入点，不仅以"历史-非历史"，"泥土-现代性"，"自然-非自然"等视角阐述混凝土这个材料非常有意思，这一从两个对立概念出发来回论述的方式本身也非常有启发。第四章提到混凝土在日本和巴西的独特表现及其原因，也引发了我对为何日本和巴西可以以国家为单位谈论其混凝土的"普遍性"特征的思考(前者为单一民族的狭小岛国，后者虽地域广大但是人口多集中在沿海几个大城市，所以两者谈论"国家性"是有效的);... 非常有意思的切入点，不仅以"历史-非历史"，"泥土-现代性"，"自然-非自然"等视角阐述混凝土这个材料非常有意思，这一从两个对立概念出发来回论述的方式本身也非常有启发。第四章提到混凝土在日本和巴西的独特表现及其原因，也引发了我对为何日本和巴西可以以国家为单位谈论其混凝土的"普遍性"特征的思考(前者为单一民族的狭小岛国，后者虽地域广大但是人口多集中在沿海几个大城市，所以两者谈论"国家性"是有效的);第五章提到社会主义国家对预制装配混凝土的青睐，并非完全出于建造的经济性(在西欧其造价并没有优势)，而是由于需要在短时间内解决大量人口的居住问题以解放劳动力投入到工业生产中，这是更高层级的经济性了。 (展开)
0 有用 lou 2023-03-13 09:42:32 上海
混凝土的散文写作 深殖的二元结构
0 有用 安蜡笔 2016-03-02 04:05:52
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”。
0 有用 -messury- 2024-05-11 21:35:29 湖南
蛮好！摄影能多讲一点就更好了
0 有用 lou 2023-03-13 09:42:32 上海
混凝土的散文写作 深殖的二元结构
2 有用 照夜白 2022-06-14 05:21:51
非常有意思的切入点，不仅以"历史-非历史"，"泥土-现代性"，"自然-非自然"等视角阐述混凝土这个材料非常有意思，这一从两个对立概念出发来回论述的方式本身也非常有启发。第四章提到混凝土在日本和巴西的独特表现及其原因，也引发了我对为何日本和巴西可以以国家为单位谈论其混凝土的"普遍性"特征的思考(前者为单一民族的狭小岛国，后者虽地域广大但是人口多集中在沿海几个大城市，所以两者谈论"国家性"是有效的);... 非常有意思的切入点，不仅以"历史-非历史"，"泥土-现代性"，"自然-非自然"等视角阐述混凝土这个材料非常有意思，这一从两个对立概念出发来回论述的方式本身也非常有启发。第四章提到混凝土在日本和巴西的独特表现及其原因，也引发了我对为何日本和巴西可以以国家为单位谈论其混凝土的"普遍性"特征的思考(前者为单一民族的狭小岛国，后者虽地域广大但是人口多集中在沿海几个大城市，所以两者谈论"国家性"是有效的);第五章提到社会主义国家对预制装配混凝土的青睐，并非完全出于建造的经济性(在西欧其造价并没有优势)，而是由于需要在短时间内解决大量人口的居住问题以解放劳动力投入到工业生产中，这是更高层级的经济性了。 (展开)
1 有用 一口青 2022-02-16 22:11:08
本科第一年的兴趣爱好，可能是因为Forty本人在课上对混凝土的激情吸引了我
2 有用 棱镜 2021-09-09 23:46:02
要是有人用这种不屈不挠的精神以木材为中心亚洲地区为主线写个书，学术大佬的位置算是稳了，同理可推100个学术基金课题。