The World Recast
70 Buildings from 70 Years of Concrete Quarterly
Book Design
70 Buildings from 70 Years of Concrete Quarterly
Book Design
As the modern world rose from the rubble of the 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.
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.
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.
24 x 29 cm
240 pages
Paperback
Artifice books on architecture
2017
240 pages
Paperback
Artifice books on architecture
2017