Concrete: The Vision of a New Architecture, Second Edition - Softcover

Collins, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0773525645 ISBN 13: 9780773525641

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004

Synopsis

From the Foreword by Kenneth Frampton: "Concrete remains a valuable historical text that in many respects has never been given its due. It is an unmatched pioneering history of the development of reinforced concrete up to 1914. It records and analyses the densely articulated, if provincial, English debate with respect to the aesthetic challenge posed by the increasing popularity of concrete from around 1870 onwards. Finally, until very recently it was the only readily available monograph on Auguste Perret in English. In this regard it is particularly valuable as a thorough and perceptive assessment of Perret's life and career, one that still stands as a point of departure for all current attempts to situate this seminal architect within the wider trajectory of twentieth-century culture."

About this title

About the Author

Peter Collins was professor of archiecture, McGill University.

Kenneth Frampton is professor of architecture at Columbia University and the author of many books on architectural history and theory, including Modern Architecture.

Review

"This is exemplary historical writing, readable, compact, shrewd, and full of new material. We have to thank Peter Collins for having produced a first complete pre-history of reinforced concrete that looks as if it will be very difficult to supercede ... No one who appreciates good scholarship, good writing and cogent argument could fail to take pleasure in all but a few pages of the book."

Edition details

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0773525645
• ISBN 13: 9780773525641
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 472