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Concrete in Switzerland - Salvatore Aprea, Nicola Navone, Laurent Stalder, Sarah Nichols - EPFL Press

Concrete in Switzerland

Histories from the Recent Past

by Salvatore Aprea, Nicola Navone, Laurent Stalder, Sarah Nichols, Salvatore Aprea (publication director), Nicola Navone (publication director), Laurent Stalder (publication director)
Collection: Architecture
december 2021
Book
210 x 270 format 288 pages In stock
39,81 €

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A groundbreaking work resulting from the collaboration between the three major Swiss Architectural Archives and the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel. A historical assessment of the most controversial building material of our time, concrete, made by addressing a number of issues of global relevance from a particular vantage point: reinforced concrete construction in Switzerland. Through contributions by internationally renowned researchers, the book analyses a series of moments in the Swiss history of reinforced concrete, from the initial phase of its introduction in the country to the most refined applications in architecture and engineering.

Content

  • Curatorial Statement
  • Message from the Director of the S AM
  • ESSAYS
  • Switzerland, A Technological Pastoral / Laurent Stalder
  • Beton is a State of Mind: On the Representation of Concrete in Swiss Cinema / Marcel Bächtiger
  • Nature, Science, and Enterprise: The Origins of the Success of Reinforced Concrete in Switzerland. The Introduction, Diffusion, and Supersedence of the Hennebique System / Salvatore Aprea
  • Between Constraint and Freedom to Innovate: Swiss Standards to Innovate / Aurelio Muttoni
  • The N2 Chiasso–Saint Gotthard Motorway: Design and Construction of One Hundred and Forty-Three Kilometres of Reinforced Concrete / Ilaria Giannetti
  • Reinforced Country Below Ground / Silvia Berger Ziauddin
  • Terraced Hillside Housing Architectures. When Vineyards Gave Way to Swiss Families / Lorenzo Stieger
  • The Swiss Principle of Béton Brut: ‘Betonkonstruktion’. A Debate between Theory and Practice, 1940s–1960s / Silvia Groaz
  • Gesamtschweizerische Plattenbau – Large-Panel Construction in Switzerland. The IGECO Heavy Prefabrication System in Göhner Housing Estates: Serial Production and Variations (1965–1977) / Giulia Marino
  • The Pluralities of the Possible / Martin Tschanz
  • ‘In our country, it is practically impossible not to build in concrete’. Brief Notes on Exposed Reinforced Concrete in the Architecture of Ticino / Nicola Navone
  • Concrete in the Early Works of Herzog and de Meuron / Roberto Gargiani
  • Southern Fragments of Swiss Asbestos-Cement, 1940 to 2040 / Hannah le Roux
  • CONCRETE STORIES / Sarah Nichols
  • Introduction
  • Concrete is Rock
  • Concrete is Underground
  • Concrete is Energy
  • Concrete is Second Nature
  • Concrete is Monolithic
  • Concrete is Composite
  • Concrete is Immaterial
  • Concrete is Praxis
  • Concrete is Fluid
  • Image Credits
  • Author biographies

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Details

Publisher: EPFL Press

Author(s): Salvatore Aprea, Nicola Navone, Laurent Stalder, Sarah Nichols

Collection: Architecture

Published: 2 december 2021

Edition: 1st edition

Media: Book

Pages count Book: 288

Format (in mm) Book: 210 x 270

Weight (in grammes): 1070 (Book)

Language(s): English

EAN13 Book: 9782889153534

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