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CONNEXIONS - The Unseen Hand of Tony Hunt
It examines the quest for technological advance and Hunt’s passion for industrial and product design which led him to favour
an industrialized component-based approach to engineering in architecture. He showed an unerring ability to identify and
express key components within a design, concentrating on the way they connected together, and demonstrated a practical
knowledge and experience of the technology required for their manufacture.
The results of Hunt's contribution, and the many prestigious commissions he received, when working with the generation of
acclaimed architects emerging from the Architectural Association, the Royal College of Art and from Yale University
scholarships in the early period of his career, are well-documented and publicised. Direct comparisons with the great
European and American architect engineers such as Richard Buckminster Fuller, Charles Eames, Fritz Haller and Jean Prouvé are justifiably made.
Available: October 2011
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Decorative and innovative use of concrete
This is a broadly chronological account of the decorative and innovative use
of Portland cement-based concrete. Contrary to the oft-held belief that
concrete is a dull material that is used unimaginatively, this book
demonstrates that it can be used in an exciting and inspiring way while
benefiting from being a highly durable building material.
After tracing the decorative use of concrete back several thousand years, its development is followed into the 20th century with the invention
of Portland cement and its subsequent use in vast volumes. As concrete was used more widely, it also was used more creatively and
accounts are included of some of the early exponents of the material such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Nervi, Lubetkin and Arup.
The brilliance of these and other designers and engineers has provided a legacy of economy and form that is akin to today's current vogue
of minimalism.
Available: October 2011
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Some Writers on Concrete
This is a blend of biography and bibliography that traces the
emergence and development of the specialist book literature
on concrete at a time when reinforced concrete was a new
technology. From 1897, and the first complete building of
reinforced concrete in the UK to 1935, when the literature
mushroomed and the basic technology was understood and
codified.
Some Writers on Concrete contains the biographies of
significant figures from the UK, USA and Europe, in the
development of concrete technology and provides comprehensive bibliographical coverage of their worked published in book
form. It collates the work of numerous writers to form a corpus of literature and engender an understanding of the unfolding narrative of concrete theory and
practice.
Available: November 2011
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