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more and more brutalist buildings are earmarked for demolition.
"Croft believes that brutalism and concrete were particularly suited to the British landscape and climate. She is writing a book about concrete, the material favoured by British brutalists ever since they looked at Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation in Marseilles and saw that they could bring it here and give it authentically domestic expression. "Architects like Luder knew what they were doing. They were brave artists," she says. But she is more concerned about how we have misunderstood concrete and failed to respond to its aesthetic potentialities. "Concrete gets a really bad press. It's not seen as beautiful, but it is. It has really beautiful stainings."
Hi bill. Article by B. Forgey - if you haven't seen it already - on the exhibition at the Building Museum: Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete
that post is a great resource. think there will be a catalog ?
NBM
i love concrete buildings. i just wonder which will cave first, them or tom moody.
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let's keep an eye out for the catalogue.
(also the new architect's newspaper is out. I think I need help identifying the photographs)
opps, sorry:
shipping news.
(I think I am learning to keep my mouth shut in matters between you and tom moody :-)
thats ok, i was just goofing on his flimsy yet stubornly held anti-concrete position. thats a good one ill move it up too.
The Romance of Cement
Thomas Edison’s concrete houses, as seen on History Detectives.
This is a great story alex. Although not the inventor of pre-fab the man was thinking. (poor delores chumsky. I want to go see that house.) And thanks for the History Detectives - I certainly don't watch enough pbs - I love the idea of this show.
FYI, just because the thought of houses made by concrete-excreting robots seems unappealing to me shouldn't make me a Hater of All Things Concrete. I do dislike cinderblocks, but otherwise I take it on a squirt by squirt basis.
cinderblocks in the hold-up-a-book-shelf kind of use? Or just in general? Sculpture (I am thinking Sol LeWitt)?
No, I like those Sol LeWitts. Housing-wise, I was scarred by early exposure to dorm room walls.
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- bill 3-13-2004 11:34 pm
tricorn centre
- bill 3-13-2004 11:36 pm [add a comment]
more and more brutalist buildings are earmarked for demolition.
"Croft believes that brutalism and concrete were particularly suited to the British landscape and climate. She is writing a book about concrete, the material favoured by British brutalists ever since they looked at Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation in Marseilles and saw that they could bring it here and give it authentically domestic expression. "Architects like Luder knew what they were doing. They were brave artists," she says. But she is more concerned about how we have misunderstood concrete and failed to respond to its aesthetic potentialities. "Concrete gets a really bad press. It's not seen as beautiful, but it is. It has really beautiful stainings."
- bill 3-15-2004 10:29 pm [add a comment]
Hi bill. Article by B. Forgey - if you haven't seen it already - on the exhibition at the Building Museum: Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete
- selma 6-21-2004 11:24 pm [add a comment]
that post is a great resource. think there will be a catalog ?
NBM
i love concrete buildings. i just wonder which will cave first, them or tom moody.
- bill 6-22-2004 10:15 pm [add a comment]
?
let's keep an eye out for the catalogue.
(also the new architect's newspaper is out. I think I need help identifying the photographs)
- selma 6-22-2004 10:32 pm [add a comment]
opps, sorry:
shipping news.
(I think I am learning to keep my mouth shut in matters between you and tom moody :-)
- selma 6-22-2004 10:41 pm [add a comment]
thats ok, i was just goofing on his flimsy yet stubornly held anti-concrete position. thats a good one ill move it up too.
- bill 6-23-2004 12:25 am [add a comment]
The Romance of Cement
Thomas Edison’s concrete houses, as seen on History Detectives.
- alex 6-23-2004 4:10 am [add a comment]
This is a great story alex. Although not the inventor of pre-fab the man was thinking. (poor delores chumsky. I want to go see that house.) And thanks for the History Detectives - I certainly don't watch enough pbs - I love the idea of this show.
- selma 6-23-2004 7:32 pm [add a comment]
FYI, just because the thought of houses made by concrete-excreting robots seems unappealing to me shouldn't make me a Hater of All Things Concrete. I do dislike cinderblocks, but otherwise I take it on a squirt by squirt basis.
- tom moody 6-23-2004 9:27 pm [add a comment]
cinderblocks in the hold-up-a-book-shelf kind of use? Or just in general? Sculpture (I am thinking Sol LeWitt)?
- selma 6-23-2004 9:36 pm [add a comment]
No, I like those Sol LeWitts. Housing-wise, I was scarred by early exposure to dorm room walls.
- tom moody 6-23-2004 9:38 pm [add a comment]