Concrete Jungle - Tropical Architecture and its Surprising Origins

Combine concrete's stoicism with luscious vegetative environments and you get to the language of tropical modernism. In continuity with its founding principles from the mid 20th century, today's architectural visionaries renew the use of raw materials, such as exposed concrete, to explore functionality rather than aesthetics.No matter if works are created in total symbiosis with the tropical landscape or surrounded by flourishing nature, Concrete Jungle presents the dichotomy of the rough material being softened by interaction with the interior and exterior. When gray meets green a never ending range of impressions awakens.

Summary

Combine concrete’s stoicism with luscious vegetative environments and you get to the language of tropical modernism. In continuity with its founding principles from the mid 20th century, today’s architectural visionaries renew the use of raw materials, such as exposed concrete, to explore functionality rather than aesthetics.

No matter if works are created in total symbiosis with the tropical landscape or surrounded by flourishing nature, Concrete Jungle presents the dichotomy of the rough material being softened by interaction with the interior and exterior. When gray meets green a never ending range of impressions awakens.

Product details

• Assisted by: Erman (Editor), Masha Erman (Editor), gestalten (Editor), Robert Klanten (Editor)
• Publisher: Die Gestalten Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2023
• EAN: 9783967040890
• ISBN: 978-3-96704-089-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 250 mm x 32 mm x 330 mm
• Weight: 2253 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Architecture; Architektur, Modernismus, Einzelne Architekten und Architekturbüros, Beton, Interior, ARCHITECTURE / Environmentally Conscious (Green), Architecture, entdecken, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Architectural & Industrial, ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architect, Residential, Hausrenovierung und -ausbau, ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-), HOUSE & HOME / Reference, Wohngebäude, Brutalismus, Residential buildings, domestic buildings, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Modernism, Home renovation & extension, Brutalism, International Styl