TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bell,Michael
AU  - Buckley,Craig
TI  - Solid states: concrete in transition 
T2  - Columbia books on architecture, engineering, and materials
SN  - 1568988958
AV  - NA4125 .S65 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - Princeton Architectural Press
KW  - Concrete construction
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Architecture, Modern
KW  - 21st century
N1  - DVD features highlights from the conference held at Columbia University; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - It has been estimated that more than twelve billion tons of concrete are produced worldwide each year. By far the mostpervasive and affordable building material in the world, concrete has undergone ever-more-widespread dissemination, standardization, and technological innovation in the last twenty-five years. Recent scientific breakthroughs have yielded composites stronger than steel, lighter than water, and as beautiful as natural stone.  In Solid States, an interdisciplinary group of architects, historians, theorists, engineers, fabricators, and materials scientists collectively explore the past, present, and future possibilities of this highly calibrated, fluid material. Solid States presents new theoretical and cultural analyses of concrete architecture, both historically and in the context of newly built work
ER  -