The reemergence in the early eighteenth century of the technology and use of concrete provide the starting point for this first volume of the Treatise on Concrete. In this book are described and analyzed, for the first time, the various contributions that led to the rediscovery of concrete made by the specialists of the period, from chemists to volcanologists; from engineers to architects and construction workers; from inventors to archaeologists and even men of letters.

The book traces the various criteria for concrete production using local materials, from hydraulic...

Die Entwicklung im kulturellen Umfeld der Beaux-Arts Solange in der Architektur Interpretationsmuster vorherrschten, die von einer Kontinuitat der architektonischen Moderne ausgingen, hat die inter nationale Geschichtsschreibung fur die Zeit zwischen 1919 und 1939 ein Bild der franzosischen Architektur geliefert, in dem die komplexe Vielfalt der Formen vom Interesse fur die Arbeiten von Le Corbusier, Andre Lun; at und Robert Mallet-Stevens uberlagert wird. Die Jahreswende 1922/1923 kann. als entscheidend fur die franzosische Debatte bezeichnet werden: die Zeit, zu der sich, wenn auch eher auf...

Through sheer determination and courage, Kahn has researched the nature of concrete in the form of precast, cast in place or blocks. Each of his renowned works in exposed concrete, such as the Yale Art Gallery, the Richards Laboratories, the Bath House, the Salk Institute, the National Assembly, the Kimbell Museum, the Exeter Library and the Yale Center for British Art, is itself an important chapter in the history of architecture for the exploration into concrete's formal expression, beyond the lessons of Le Corbusier.

Kahn's obsession with concrete's fabrication processes,...