Concrete in Switzerland

• 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

Editeur : EPFL Press

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

Collection : Architecture

Publication : 2 décembre 2021

Edition : 1^ère édition

Support(s) : Livre papier

Nombre de pages Livre papier : 288

Format (en mm) Livre papier : 210 x 270

Poids (en grammes) : 1070

Langue(s) : Anglais

EAN13 Livre papier : 9782889153534