Corrugated Iron: Building on the Frontier - Rilegato

Mornement, Adam; Holloway, Simon

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0393732401 ISBN 13: 9780393732405

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2008

Riassunto

Within a few years engineers were putting up warehouses and elegant railway stations of corrugated iron. By the late 1840s entrepreneurial manufacturers were sending out build-it-yourself cottages for gold prospectors in California and Australia. Whole townships complete with churches, sports pavilions, hotels, and meeting halls were soon available from catalogs, to be flat-packed and sent around the world. The First World War brought the development of the shelter known as the Nissen hut, perhaps the most iconic of all corrugated iron buildings and forerunner of the Quonset hut.Today corrugated sheet metal has proved invaluable in relief work and is used so often as roofing in the developing world that it can lay claim to shelter more people from the elements than any other building material. But the big surprise comes as architects around the world rediscover the virtues of this durable, biodegradable, and environmentally sound material, sufficiently versatile to create unique works of architecture and to house thousands in disaster zones. It answers the needs of both high-tech aesthetics and low-tech aspirations for affordability and ease of construction, as demonstrated by such cutting-edge architects as Will Bruder and Lake/Flato Architects in the United States; Glenn Murcutt in Australia; Rem Koolhaas, Nicholas Grimshaw, and Foreign Office Architects in Europe; and Shuhei Endo in Japan.Whether the appeal lies in nostalgia for rain on rusting tin roofs or in the sophistication of contemporary architecture, corrugated iron deserves to be taken seriously. It has a long and fascinating history and a future as bright as its past.

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The definitive illustrated book on the material of preference for a new generation of architects. Corrugated iron is a durable, biodegradable, and environmentally sound cladding system, sufficiently versatile to create one-off works of architectural sculpture and to house thousands in disaster zones. It answers the needs of both high-tech aesthetics and low-tech aspirations for affordability and ease of construction, as shown here in a wide range of residential, corporate, and industrial applications. 200 color and black-and-white photographs and drawings.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0393732401
• ISBN 13: 9780393732405
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 223