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Liquid Stone New in Concrete

Jean-Louis Cohen and G. Martin Moeller, Jr., editors

Birkhauser - Publishers for Architecture Basel • Boston Contents

Introduction Jean-Louis Cohen and G. Martin Moeller, Jr.

ESSAYS

8 Architecture and Technology: Two Centuries of Creative Tension Antoine Picon

20 Modern Architecture and the Saga of Concrete Jean-Louis Cohen

34 A Material Without a History Adrian Forty

46 The Semantics of Exposed Concrete Rejean Legault

DESIGNS AND BUILDINGS

60 Structure Concrete Theater Guy Nordenson

Projects by Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates, Baumschlager-Eberle Ziviltechniker, VJAA, Stanley Saitowitz/Natoma Architects Inc., Steven Holl Architects, Ateliers , Shin Takamatsu Architect and Associates Co., Ltd, Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon/Francisco Serrano, Foster and Partners Texts by G. Martin Moeller, Jr.

104 Surface Surface as Substance Tod Williams and Billie Tsien

Projects by Architect and Associates, Antoine Predock Architect, Alberto Kalach, Remy Marciano, Michael Jantzen, Jim Jennings Architecture, David Hertz Architects/Syndesis, Inc. with Stacy Fond, WW with SMWM, Herzog & de Meuron Texts by G. Martin Moeller, Jr.

to 154 Sculptural Form Reinforced Concrete and the Morality of Form G. Martin Moeller, Jr.

Projects by Sancho-Madridejos Architecture Office, Mansilla + Tunon Arquitectos, Pugh + Scarpa Architects, Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects, Massiearchitecture. com, Ingenhoven und Partner in collaboration with , Christoff:Finio Architecture, Architects, & Partners Architects, Santiago Calatrava, Hariri & Hariri-Architecture Texts by G. Martin Moeller, Jr.

216 The Future of Concrete What's the Matter with Concrete? Franz-Josef Ulm

Projects by Building Studio, Rudy Ricciotti, Bill Price, Inc., Aron Losonczi Product descriptions of autoclaved aerated, bendable, fabric-formed, fabric-reinforced, and robot-laid concrete Texts by G. Martin Moeller, Jr.

244 Acknowledgments

245 Selected Bibliography

246 Index