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E-book Changing Cultures : European Perspectives on the History of Portland Cement and Reinforced Concrete, 19th and 20th Centuries

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In 1909, the book Reinforced Concrete in Europe by Albert Ladd Colby (1860–1924) was pub-lished with the aim of disseminating in the USA the advances in reinforced concrete made in each of the European countries at that time. Besides introducing the main systems, types of reinforcement bars and their applications, the work describes an intermediate phase of a para-digm shift in the constructive cultures of the Old Continent in which the institutions capable of establishing consensual rules of use for the new construction culture became recognized and – importantly – the first national codes on reinforced concrete construction and the introduction of Portland cement were produced. Since the publication of that essay, several fundamental works have been published on the history of Portland cement and reinforced concrete in the fields of architectural history, art history or history of technology, such as Concrete: The Vision of a New Architecture (1959) by Peter Collins (1920–1981); Le Béton, Histoire d’un Matériau. Écono-mie, Technique, Architecture (2005) by Cyrille Simonnet (1952–); Concrete from Archeology to Invention (1700–1769) published in 2013 by Roberto Gargiani (1956–); or more recently, Ger-man Concrete. The Science of Cement from Trass to Portland, 1819–1877 by Salvatore Aprea, published in 2016.Today, at a time when reinforced concrete already firmly belongs to a globalized construction tradition, it seems pertinent to focus on the ontology of this culture in Europe, broadening the discussion beyond the authors of inventions, patent owners, structural theorists and rationalist architects from France, Great Britain and Germany, who were revered in the aforementioned books. How did the advent of reinforced concrete manage to diminish the use of millenary cul-tures of masonry, carpentry and rammed earth to such reduced proportions? What were its ori-gins, and why was this new culture adopted by European countries? The main objective of this book is to reflect on these questions and contribute to answering them. Specialists from different European countries besides Portugal (Spain, France, UK, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany and Italy) were invited to take part in the endeavour to produce a critical reading of this shift para-digm in their own countries. This exercise in critical analysis is framed not in architectural his-tory or the history of technology but within the study of the history of construction, understood as the history of building cultures – in other words, the history of everyday life in communities in relation to the activity of building.The ways in which we build today in Europe and around the globe result from a cultural paradigm shift initiated with scientific innovations that proliferated during the Enlighten-ment, accelerated by the dynamics of the industrial revolution, the advent of steam power and steel in construction, and the study, application, testing, refinement and regulation of Portland cement.

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691 ALB c

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Netherlands : Taylor & Francis., 2023

Deskripsi Fisik

366 hlm

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English

ISBN/ISSN

9781003368656

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691

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Building Material

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