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.
- ISBN10 1616890460
- ISBN13 9781616890469
- Publish Date 27 June 2012
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton Architectural Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English