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The World Recast - 70 Buildings from 70 Years of Concrete Quarterly (Paperback)
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The World Recast - 70 Buildings from 70 Years of Concrete Quarterly (Paperback)
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As the modern world rose from the rubble of Second World War, it
was shaped by one material above all others. In 1947, a new
magazine honed in on this paradigmatic shift in architecture and
design: Concrete Quarterly. The World Recast charts this journey
through the stunning photography and eyewitness testimony of
Concrete Quarterly's rich and fascinating archive. It is the story
of heroic architecture, ingenious engineering and how the world we
now take for granted came into being. The World Recast celebrates
Concrete Quarterly's summative coverage of this pivotal era in
architecture, focusing on 70 buildings from the magazine's 70-year
history. It charts the genesis of some of the modern world's
greatest monuments and its boldest ideas, from the ethereal beauty
of Ove Arup's Brynmawr Rubber Factory to the sleek modernism of the
Pirelli Tower, the fairytale churches of Gottfried Boehm and the
digitally enhanced imagination of Zaha Hadid. Plentiful and cheap,
but also bold and undeniably modern, concrete suited the spirit of
the post-war period perfectly. It was the obvious means of building
the power stations, motorways and factories that would be the
engines of economic recovery, and made possible a new era in
architecture and design. But it was also the choice of a generation
of designers keen to express themselves through radically new
architectural forms and types of structure. The World Recast
reflects upon the legacy of Concrete Quarterly and the significance
of concrete within modernism and other architectural movements. It
also expands the conversation into the present day, offering
crucial insight into concrete's comeback within today's
architecture, as well as its recent popularity in contemporary
culture at large.
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