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Sainte-Bernadette-du-Banlay Church, Nevers, France, by Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, 1966
Concrete
Edited by William Hall
Ah, concrete. Has there ever been a more divisive material? Regular readers will not be remotely surprised to find us singing the praises of a hefty book devoted exclusively to the sculptural qualities of the grey stuff. Concrete gets down and dirty with the notorious material, unashamedly singing its praises through a series of captioned photographs that run the full range of concrete's structural, sculptural, textural and technological applications. Sure, there's plenty here that a savvy Wallpaper* reader will know like the back of their hand, but Hall and his team have done a good job of digging up the more esoteric examples of concrete design. A weighty book with which to administer beatings to doubters.
Published by Phaidon, £29.95; www.phaidon.com
Writer: Jonathan Bell
Sainte-Bernadette-du-Banlay Church, Nevers, France, by Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, 1966
Concrete
Edited by William Hall
Ah, concrete. Has there ever been a more divisive material? Regular readers will not be remotely surprised to find us singing the praises of a hefty book devoted exclusively to the sculptural qualities of the grey stuff. Concrete gets down and dirty with the notorious material, unashamedly singing its praises through a series of captioned photographs that run the full range of concrete's structural, sculptural, textural and technological applications. Sure, there's plenty here that a savvy Wallpaper* reader will know like the back of their hand, but Hall and his team have done a good job of digging up the more esoteric examples of concrete design. A weighty book with which to administer beatings to doubters.
Published by Phaidon, £29.95; www.phaidon.com
Writer: Jonathan Bell
Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by Oscar Niemeyer, 1996
Concrete
Edited by William Hall
Ah, concrete. Has there ever been a more divisive material? Regular readers will not be remotely surprised to find us singing the praises of a hefty book devoted exclusively to the sculptural qualities of the grey stuff. Concrete gets down and dirty with the notorious material, unashamedly singing its praises through a series of captioned photographs that run the full range of concrete's structural, sculptural, textural and technological applications. Sure, there's plenty here that a savvy Wallpaper* reader will know like the back of their hand, but Hall and his team have done a good job of digging up the more esoteric examples of concrete design. A weighty book with which to administer beatings to doubters.
Published by Phaidon, £29.95; www.phaidon.com
Writer: Jonathan Bell
Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by Oscar Niemeyer, 1996
Concrete
Edited by William Hall
Ah, concrete. Has there ever been a more divisive material? Regular readers will not be remotely surprised to find us singing the praises of a hefty book devoted exclusively to the sculptural qualities of the grey stuff. Concrete gets down and dirty with the notorious material, unashamedly singing its praises through a series of captioned photographs that run the full range of concrete's structural, sculptural, textural and technological applications. Sure, there's plenty here that a savvy Wallpaper* reader will know like the back of their hand, but Hall and his team have done a good job of digging up the more esoteric examples of concrete design. A weighty book with which to administer beatings to doubters.
Published by Phaidon, £29.95; www.phaidon.com
Writer: Jonathan Bell
Mori Crematorium, Kakamigahara City, Japan, by Toyo Ito, 2006
Concrete
Edited by William Hall
Ah, concrete. Has there ever been a more divisive material? Regular readers will not be remotely surprised to find us singing the praises of a hefty book devoted exclusively to the sculptural qualities of the grey stuff. Concrete gets down and dirty with the notorious material, unashamedly singing its praises through a series of captioned photographs that run the full range of concrete's structural, sculptural, textural and technological applications. Sure, there's plenty here that a savvy Wallpaper* reader will know like the back of their hand, but Hall and his team have done a good job of digging up the more esoteric examples of concrete design. A weighty book with which to administer beatings to doubters.
Published by Phaidon, £29.95; www.phaidon.com
Writer: Jonathan Bell
Mori Crematorium, Kakamigahara City, Japan, by Toyo Ito, 2006
Concrete
Edited by William Hall
Ah, concrete. Has there ever been a more divisive material? Regular readers will not be remotely surprised to find us singing the praises of a hefty book devoted exclusively to the sculptural qualities of the grey stuff. Concrete gets down and dirty with the notorious material, unashamedly singing its praises through a series of captioned photographs that run the full range of concrete's structural, sculptural, textural and technological applications. Sure, there's plenty here that a savvy Wallpaper* reader will know like the back of their hand, but Hall and his team have done a good job of digging up the more esoteric examples of concrete design. A weighty book with which to administer beatings to doubters.
Published by Phaidon, £29.95; www.phaidon.com
Writer: Jonathan Bell
The Architectural Model: Tool, Fetish, Small Utopia
Edited by Oliver Elser and Peter Cachola Schmal
Published to accompany a lavish exhibition at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, The Architectural Model is a must for lovers of the care, craft and complexity of the architectural model. Works of art in their own right, the book catalogues the miniaturised origins of some of the most recognisable celebrated pieces of architecture in the world, from shop fittings to entire cityscapes. Some of these projects never progressed further than balsa and wire, while other elaborate structures became works of art in their own right.
Published by Scheidegger & Spiess, £61.50; www.scheidegger-spiess.ch
Writer: Jonathan Bell
The Architectural Model: Tool, Fetish, Small Utopia
Edited by Oliver Elser and Peter Cachola Schmal
Published to accompany a lavish exhibition at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, The Architectural Model is a must for lovers of the care, craft and complexity of the architectural model. Works of art in their own right, the book catalogues the miniaturised origins of some of the most recognisable celebrated pieces of architecture in the world, from shop fittings to entire cityscapes. Some of these projects never progressed further than balsa and wire, while other elaborate structures became works of art in their own right.
Published by Scheidegger & Spiess, £61.50; www.scheidegger-spiess.ch
Writer: Jonathan Bell
'Dam Pavilion' model, by Barkow Leibinger
The Architectural Model: Tool, Fetish, Small Utopia
Edited by Oliver Elser and Peter Cachola Schmal
Published to accompany a lavish exhibition at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, The Architectural Model is a must for lovers of the care, craft and complexity of the architectural model. Works of art in their own right, the book catalogues the miniaturised origins of some of the most recognisable celebrated pieces of architecture in the world, from shop fittings to entire cityscapes. Some of these projects never progressed further than balsa and wire, while other elaborate structures became works of art in their own right.
Published by Scheidegger & Spiess, £61.50; www.scheidegger-spiess.ch
Writer: Jonathan Bell
'Dam Pavilion' model, by Barkow Leibinger
The Architectural Model: Tool, Fetish, Small Utopia
Edited by Oliver Elser and Peter Cachola Schmal
Published to accompany a lavish exhibition at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, The Architectural Model is a must for lovers of the care, craft and complexity of the architectural model. Works of art in their own right, the book catalogues the miniaturised origins of some of the most recognisable celebrated pieces of architecture in the world, from shop fittings to entire cityscapes. Some of these projects never progressed further than balsa and wire, while other elaborate structures became works of art in their own right.
Published by Scheidegger & Spiess, £61.50; www.scheidegger-spiess.ch
Writer: Jonathan Bell
