Focusing on concrete’s effects on culture rather than its technical properties, Concrete and Culture examines the ways in which concrete has changed our understanding of nature, time, and even the material. Adrian Forty focuses not only on architects’ responses to concrete, but also considers the role concrete has played in politics, literature, film, labor relations, and arguments about sustainability. Covering Europe, North and South America, and the Far East, Adrian Forty examines the extent to which concrete has been responsible for modernist uniformity and the debates engendered by it. Concrete and Culture, the first book to reflect on the global consequences of concrete, offers a new way of looking at our environment over the past century.
