Ultra-High Performance Fibre-Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC) – Structure and Ornament
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Italian Alpine Architecture – Contextualism and modernism in alpine landscape
The twentieth century witnessed an overall transformation of the Alps landscape due to the construction…
Italy after World War II – Part III
Modern Italian design, based on the abstraction of architectural shapes, the sophisticated manipulation of a…
Italy after World War II – Part II
During the post-war reconstruction there was a fruitful exchange between the diverse disciplinary fields of…
Italy after World War II – Part I
Italy after World War II_part 1 In the course of the 20th century, the reconstruction…
The use of precast concrete as structure and skin
The prefabrication process in the building sector, initially applied only to industrial constructions, has been…
The glass skin
After the construction of Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, glass became a constituent part of a…
The curtain wall
The curtain wall originated with the introduction of frame construction (first steel and then concrete)…
Timber construction
Timber If one thinks of Sigfried Giedion’s Bauen in Frankreich (1928), iron and reinforced concrete…
The cladding
The cladding Any good architect of the 19th century knew that in order to shape…