Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete

by Jean L. Cohen

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568985703
• ISBN13: 9781568985701
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 3.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.8" x 12.0"