2015
DOI: 10.1080/13602365.2015.1039046
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‘The sweetest music you will ever hear’: structural and programmatic uses of concrete by Denys Lasdun & Partners

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“…It is important to bear in mind that at the time of these developments concrete was often seen as a prestige material and was not simply a means of keeping costs down. Calder refers to a ‘rumour’ that ‘went round architecture schools in the 1970s’ that it would have been cheaper to clad the National Theatre in London with marble than the existing concrete (Calder, 2015: 337; 2016: 9). He argues, too, that the skills involved in creating good concrete during the 1960s constituted one of the ‘great craft traditions’.…”
Section: Ontology 1: Concrete Is Concretementioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is important to bear in mind that at the time of these developments concrete was often seen as a prestige material and was not simply a means of keeping costs down. Calder refers to a ‘rumour’ that ‘went round architecture schools in the 1970s’ that it would have been cheaper to clad the National Theatre in London with marble than the existing concrete (Calder, 2015: 337; 2016: 9). He argues, too, that the skills involved in creating good concrete during the 1960s constituted one of the ‘great craft traditions’.…”
Section: Ontology 1: Concrete Is Concretementioning
confidence: 99%