Concrete Architecture

The ultimate book of concrete architecture, featuring 300 buildings of every type and style from the past 100 years



A singularly impressive volume featuring 300 examples of the most incredible and inspiring concrete architecture from the early twentieth century to the present day. Organised visually, with one building per page,
Concrete Architecture
celebrates the might, majesty, and sculptural beauty of concrete buildings from all over the globe and is grounded with a contextualising essay on the long history of concrete architecture, reaching back more than a thousand years to the classical civilisations of Greece and Rome.



Including buildings from the pioneering Modern masters of concrete Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, I. M. Pei, John Lautner, and Frank Lloyd Wright as well as work by some of the most revered architects of the late twentieth century including Tadao Ando, Steven Holl, Herzog and de Meuron, and Zaha Hadid,
Concrete Architecture
also brings to light the contemporary stars using concrete in spectacular ways, including Grafton Architects, Elemental, and Pezo von Elrichshausen. This awe-inspiring collection of concrete buildings from around the globe is a visual feast for lovers of Brutalism, one of the hottest topics in popular architecture.

|The ultimate book of concrete architecture, featuring 300 buildings of every type and style from the past 100 years|

Phaidon Editors



Sam Lubell
and
Greg Goldin
are Los Angeles-based architecture writers. World experts on unbuilt architecture, they are the co-authors and co-curators of the hit exhibitions and companion books
Never Built New York
and
Never Built Los Angeles
. They have each contributed to numerous publications, including the
New York Times
and
Architectural Record
, and Sam has also written several books for Phaidon, including
Life Meets Art
and
Drama.