Herito : dziedzictwo, kultura, wspolczesnosc : nr 53 : beton = Herito : heritage, culture, contemporary : 53 : concrete  Herito: Heritage, Culture, Contemporary: 53: Concrete 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2639494B

  Author(s)

  Pruchla, Jacek

  City

  Krakow 

  Country

  Poland 

  Language

  Polish; English 

  ISBN

  - 

  Date of Publication

  2024 

  Publisher

  Miedzynarodowe Centrum Kultury  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  207 

  Series

  Herito 53

  Subject

  Fine Arts / Architecture / Photography

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

  Subject

  Industry (Manufacturing) and Technology

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Pruchla, Jacek

  Publisher

  Międzynarodowe Centrum Kultury  

• Description

  Herito: Heritage, Culture, Contemporary: 53: Concrete Two hundred years ago, Joseph Aspdin obtained the patent for the Portland concrete. This unassuming event laid the foundation for the giant revolution in the history of architecture, which changed the landscape of the whole world in the next century. Central Europe is severely marked by the stereotype of degraded space in our cities, dominated by blocks of flats. The large panel system building, intended to resolve the hunger for living estates in the socialist realism era, has unified the cultural landscape of cities between Eastern Berlin and Vladivostok. But did concrete deserve this bad reputation? Two hundred years after Aspind’s patent, we look at the inapparent history of this material, we talk about the most curious projects made of concrete, and we look for the answer: what material will our future be made of?