The fabric formwork book: methods for building new architectural and structural forms in concrete

Article number 10215777

The Fabric Formwork Book provides the first comprehensive handbook on the emerging technology of flexible moulds for reinforced concrete architecture. Beautifully designed and illustrated with a superb range of images, diagrams and technical drawings, the book both informs and inspires. Concrete is the most used man-made material in the world and is the fundamental physical medium for most of the world's architecture and construction. The character of concrete is largely the product of the rigid moulds that have shaped it since its invention in antiquity. The advent of flexible moulds however marks a radical break from conventional practice - and conventional concrete architecture. This handbook takes a comprehensive and generous approach that includes technical historical and theoretical aspects of the subject. pt. 1. About flexible formworks -- pt. 2. Construction. pt. 1. About flexible formworks -- pt. 2. Construction

(xx, 297 pages) : illustrations Concrete construction--Formwork.