Concrete is the material most widely used in the world after water, but it is a victim of prejudice. Often identified as being responsible for environmental degradation or property speculation (in Italian, uncon- trolled building is called cementificazione or “concretization”), it also has to cope, in the new millennium, with competition from composite materi- als or plastics, contemporary architecture’s aspiration to lightness and the concept of fluid spatiality that digital technologies are making it possible to apply. And yet the “liquid stone” of twentieth-century modernity al- lowed the progressive ideals of the period to be put into effect, turning the spaces into a concrete reality and permitting the creation of forms and structures that had never been seen before.
CEMENTO FUTURO _ FUTURE CONCRETE
CARMELA ANDRIANI
2016-01-01
Abstract
Concrete is the material most widely used in the world after water, but it is a victim of prejudice. Often identified as being responsible for environmental degradation or property speculation (in Italian, uncon- trolled building is called cementificazione or “concretization”), it also has to cope, in the new millennium, with competition from composite materi- als or plastics, contemporary architecture’s aspiration to lightness and the concept of fluid spatiality that digital technologies are making it possible to apply. And yet the “liquid stone” of twentieth-century modernity al- lowed the progressive ideals of the period to be put into effect, turning the spaces into a concrete reality and permitting the creation of forms and structures that had never been seen before.
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