Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Description:

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

Series:

Columbia books on architecture, engineering, and materials

Notes:
"Post-Ductility : Metals in Architecture and Engineering is the third book in a series that has emerged from the Columbia Conferences on Architecture, Engineering, and Materials. Each volume is edited from an academic conference sponsored by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) in collaboration with the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University."--P. 248.
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.
Includes a section on the Bioclimatic Towers, Vitoria, Spain, designed by Ábalos & Herreros.

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.
Building, Iron and steel Congresses.
Architecture and technology Congresses.
Abalos & Herreros
Torres Bioclimáticas (Vitoria, Spain)

Form/genre:

Conference publications.

Added entries:

Bell, Michael (Michael J.)
Buckley, Craig.
Columbia University. Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Columbia books on architecture, engineering, and materials.

Metals in architecture and engineering

Holdings:

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