The ultimate book of concrete architecture featuring 300 buildings of every type and style
from the past 100 years A singularly impressive volume featuring 300 examples of the
most incredible and inspiring concrete architecture from the early twentieth century to the
present day. Organised visually with one building per page Concrete Architecture
celebrates the might majesty and sculptural beauty of concrete buildings from all over the
globe and is grounded with a contextualising essay on the long history of concrete architecture
reaching back more than a thousand years to the classical civilisations of Greece and Rome.
Including buildings from the pioneering Modern masters of concrete Marcel Breuer Le Corbusier
Louis Kahn I. M. Pei John Lautner and Frank Lloyd Wright as well as work by some of the most
revered architects of the late twentieth century including Tadao Ando Steven Holl Herzog and
de Meuron and Zaha Hadid Concrete Architecture also brings to light the contemporary
stars using concrete in spectacular ways including Grafton Architects Elemental and Pezo von
Elrichshausen. This awe-inspiring collection of concrete buildings from around the globe is a
visual feast for lovers of Brutalism one of the hottest topics in popular architecture.
|The ultimate book of concrete architecture featuring 300 buildings of every type and style
from the past 100 years| Phaidon Editors Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin are Los
Angeles-based architecture writers. World experts on unbuilt architecture they are the
co-authors and co-curators of the hit exhibitions and companion books Never Built New York
and Never Built Los Angeles . They have each contributed to numerous publications
including the New York Times and Architectural Record and Sam has also written
several books for Phaidon including Life Meets Art and Drama.
