Title & Author:

Post-ductility : metals in architecture and engineering / Michael Bell and Craig Buckley, editors.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2012.

Description:

256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm.

Series:

Columbia books on architecture, engineering, and materials

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Mark Wigley -- Preface / Christian Meyer -- Introduction / Michael Bell -- History and theory : Iron cement: material limits of historical thought / Jorge Otero-Pailos ; Metal fatigue / Sylvia Lavin ; Dieste and Serra, north and south, material and method / Galia Solomonoff ; Metallic reflections: the rise and fall of aluminum / Theodore Prudon ; Empiricism and abstraction: a brief history of metals in architecture / Mabel Wilson -- Projects : Northwest Corner Building, Columbia University, New York / José Rafael Moneo with Jeffrey Brock -- Yas Hotel, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates / Lise Anne Couture -- Invisible steel structure structures space: Bioclimate towers, Vitoria, Spain / Juan Herreros -- Nanjing Museum of Art & Architecture, Nanjing, China / Steven Holl -- Architectural detail and motion: Champlain port of entry, Champlain, New York / Michael Bell -- Structural engineering : Adaptive systems: new Materials and new structures / Werner Sobek ; Engineering CCTV / Rory McGowan ; Emerging and merging: liminal-frame structures and beyond / Heiko Trumpf ; The aesthetics of minimal structures / Hans Schober ; The new San-Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge / Marwan Nader and Man-Chung Tang -- Energy and sustainability : All inclusive: on the true value of materials / Anja Thierfelder and Matthias Schuler ; Post-ductility: from manipulation to cultivation of material behavior / Anna Dyson ; Metallic flows of the built environment / John E. Fernández ; Adaptation in structure / Craig Schwitter ; Inside out: climate engineering for exposed structure / Mark Malekshahi -- Experimental fabrications : Precious industrial metals / Paola Antonelli ; An old glossary for the new metallurgists / Ana Miljački ; Pliability / Hilary Sample ; Oblique frames / Jesse Reiser -- Testing material limits, testing material territories / David Benjamin ; Fabricating the Pentagon Memorial / Keith Kaseman.

Summary:

Metals, as surface or structure- as the generators of space, play a role in nearly every strain of modernisation in architecture. They define complete geographies of work, production, and political life. Non-architectural metals delivered in cars, and hard goods in the United States and worldwide have all been sourced as the engines of the sprawling late twentieth-century city in all of its forms. But in the received aspects of architectural history, metals, and in particular steel, remain less diluted; they are presented as intrinsic to the profession as material precedes concepts- they are carriers of architectural meaning.

ISBN:

9781616890469 (alk. paper)
1616890460 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Building, Iron and steel.
Architecture and technology.
Construction métallique.
Architecture et technologie.

Form/genre:

Conference publications.

Added entries:

Bell, Michael (Michael J.)
Buckley, Craig.
Columbia books on architecture, engineering, and materials.

Metals in architecture and engineering

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282842
Call No.: BIB 220691
Status: Available