Adrian Forty : is concrete modern?.

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Main entry:

Forty, Adrian, 1948- speaker.

Title & Author:

Adrian Forty : is concrete modern?.

Publication:

[Montréal] : CCA, [2013]

Description:

1 streaming video file (1 hr., 13 min., 22 sec.) : sound, colour

Notes:
Supplied title.
Lecture.
Video recording of the CCA Mellon Lecture.
Recorded and produced by the Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Speaker: Adrian Forty.
Presentation in English.

Summary:

In this Mellon lecture, Adrian Forty, Professor of Architectural History at the Bartlett and author of 'Concrete and culture : a material history', questions the long-standing assumptions about concrete and argues that it is as much un-modern as it is modern.

Subject:

Concrete Social aspects.
Concrete Environmental aspects.
Concrete construction History.
Architecture.
Béton Aspect social.
Béton Aspect de l'environnement.
Construction en béton Histoire.
Concrete construction.

Form/genre:

Lectures.
Video recordings (physical artifacts)
Streaming video.
History.

Added entries:

Centre canadien d'architecture, issuing body, organizer, host institution.
Centre canadien d'architecture. Enregistrements des événements.
Centre canadien d'architecture. CCAchannel.
Conférences Mellon (2013 : Centre canadien d'architecture)

Is concrete modern?

Holdings:

Location: Library internet resource 306956
Call No.: 306956
Status: Available

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