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For The Love Of Concrete, Steve Carlson
For The Love Of Concrete, Steve Carlson
Honors Capstone Projects - All
For the Love of Concrete celebrates the beauty, versatility, durable sustainability and authenticity of concrete in architectural design. This capstone is born out of the contentious debate around the mid twentieth century architectural style “Brutalism”. I acknowledge the shortcomings of concrete as a material (chiefly its carbon-intensive manufacturing process), but forefront its positive attributes. This in the face of increasing demolitions of concrete structures, and the trend toward superficiality in architectural design as architects more than ever focus too much on the design of the skin or facades of buildings, rather than focusing on designing good bones.
For The Love Of Concrete: Embracing The Ugly Duckling, Not The Decorated Shed, Steven Carlson
For The Love Of Concrete: Embracing The Ugly Duckling, Not The Decorated Shed, Steven Carlson
Architecture Senior Theses
For the Love of Concrete is at its heart an homage to concrete, advocating beauty, versatility and durability; celebrating concrete's ability to create spatial experiences that are compelling, varied, acoustically attuned and thermally tempered. In the face of increasing superficiality, in architecture and the world at large, this thesis celebrates the authenticity and substantiality of concrete.