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Paperback:
9780415575294 | Routledge, June 1, 2011, cover price $61.95
Hardcover:
9780415575270 | Routledge, May 24, 2011, cover price $190.00
Concrete has been used in arches, vaults, and domes dating as far back as the Roman Empire. Today, it is everywhereâin our roads, bridges, sidewalks, walls, and architecture. For each person on the planet, nearly three tons of concrete are produced every year. Used almost universally in modern construction, concrete has become a polarizing material that provokes intense loathing in some and fervent passion in others. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Focusing on concreteâs effects on culture rather than its technical properties, Concrete and Culture examines the ways concrete has changed our understanding of nature, of time, and even of material. Adrian Forty concentrates not only on architectsâ responses to concrete, but also takes into account the role concrete has played in politics, literature, cinema, labor-relations, and arguments about sustainability. Covering Europe, North and South America, and the Far East, Forty examines the degree that concrete has been responsible for modernist uniformity and the debates engendered by it. The first book to reflect on the global consequences of concrete, Concrete and Culture offers a new way to look at our environment over the past century.Â
Hardcover:
9781861898975 | Reaktion Books, June 15, 2012, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Concrete has been used in arches, vaults, and domes dating as far back as the Roman Empire.
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9781780236360 | Reprint edition (Reaktion Books, August 15, 2016), cover price $35.00
Paperback:
9781853323270 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, September 29, 2015, cover price $40.00
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