Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.
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New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.
There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.
Everything is complicated about using concrete - the discipline and dedication necessary to make consistent batches, understanding exactly how the formwork will be laid, what the timing is for the pours, how you keep it clean and neat to achieve a fine quality.
Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones.
Steel is needed everywhere.
Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.
You begin with the possibilities of the material.
What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.
I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.
One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.
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