Contemporary Concrete Buildings

Hardcover, 14 x 19.5 cm, 1.08 kg, 632 pages
ISBN 978-3-8365-6493-9

Edition: German, English, French

Stirred and shaken

Naked as it comes out of the mixer: concrete is celebrating its comeback

Concrete, isn't that that ugly stuff they make highway bridges and parking garages out of? Yes and no. "Concrete" actually refers to a whole range of stone mixtures and, if used correctly, is one of the noblest materials in contemporary architecture. In its liquid state, it can be shaped into amazing works of engineering, flexible and durable at the same time.

Our Bibliotheca Universalis edition presents the best concrete structures of recent years. Architectural icons such as Herzog & de Meuron, Steven Holl and Zaha Hadid can be found among the master builders, as well as hip newcomers such as the Russians SPEECH. The volume also presents the work of rising stars on the international scene and even of artists such as James Turrell, who made the famous rotunda of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York the setting for one of his most impressive works.

The author

Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard and was editor-in-chief of the French art magazine Connaissance des Arts for over two decades. His publications at TASCHEN include the Architecture Now! as well as his monographs on Tadao Ando, ​​Santiago Calatrava, Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel, Shigeru Ban, Richard Meier, Zaha Hadid, and soon Norman Foster.