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Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete | 
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| Author: G. Martin Moeller
Creator: Jean-louis Cohen
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Category: Book
List Price: $65.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 282627
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 248
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.6
Dimensions (in): 12.1 x 9.7 x 1
ISBN: 1568985703
Dewey Decimal Number: 721.0445
EAN: 9781568985701
ASIN: 1568985703
Publication Date: August 10, 2006
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Produced at a rate of five billion cubic yards per year, concrete is the second most widely consumed substance on earth, after water. It is ubiquitous and easily taken for granted as the stuff of sidewalks and roads, power plants and parking garages. Concrete is also, however, a favored material of cutting-edge architects and engineers, who value not only its versatility and strength but its unlimited potential for imaginative expression. A hybrid substance made from cement, water, sand, and mineral aggregates, concrete—or liquid stone—has no intrinsic form. In the hands of talented designers, its ultimate appearance is dictated by the framework into which it is poured and the color, texture, or pattern applied to its surface. In a series of essays by top architects, engineers, and scholars, Liquid Stone explores the nature of concrete, its past and future, from technical, artistic, and historical perspectives. Over thirty buildings by leading international architects including Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Norman Foster, and Santiago Calatrava are presented through detailed descriptions, photographs, and technical drawings. The book concludes with "The Future of Concrete," a chapter on newly emerging materials. Here self-consolidated, ultra-high-performance, and translucent concrete are illustrated, introducing the next generation in concrete technology and suggesting new directions for both architecture and engineering.
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Mind Blowing Concrete! January 11, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book did a fantastice job of conveying the limitless possibilities of concrete as an art form expressed in architecture.
Forces You to Think of New Construction Methods November 19, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The title of this book is an excellent choice of words. All you have to do is creat a form of almost any conceivable shape; pour or spray the concrete in place and you have stone that is no longer liquid.
This book has three major sections.
It starts with a series of essays on concrete. This give some history, some of the characteristics, some of the things for which concrete has been used. The middle section of the book consists of photographs and drawings of some of the most advanced buildings imaginable that have been constructed using concrete. This section serves almost as an idea book of its own. Finally the last section is on the future of concrete. This includes some of the advanced types of concrete that will enable even more advanced concepts to be utilized in the future. Some of these include Translucent Concrete, Bendable Concrete and more.
This is an excellent book that gives you some thoughts that your next building should be structural concrete.
LIQUID STONE offers plenty of insights on concrete production, design, and art November 5, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
LIQUID STONE: NEW ARCHITECTURE IN CONCRETE doesn't just come from architects or artists: it includes engineers and scholars alongside those working in the medium to explore the changing nature of concrete from both aesthetic and technical perspectives. Chapters use over thirty buildings by leading concrete architects as foundations for descriptions, photos and discussion. From the characteristics of space to structural links, LIQUID STONE offers plenty of insights on concrete production, design, and art.
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