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FIRST ATTEMPTS AT THE PROLIFERATION OF CONCRETE AND REINFORCED CONCRETE IN HOUSING CONTRIBUTIVE TO THE EXPLORATION OF NEW POSSIBILITIES OF SHAPING THE FORM AND AESTHETICS IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE
(STEF92 Technology, 2018, P. Bigaj)
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The article discusses four examples of the pioneering use of concrete and reinforced concrete in the early twentieth century residential architecture that were of key importance for ideological and aesthetic changes at the root of modernity in housing. Two of these examples are completed buildings, i.e. Hennebique House in Bourg-la-Reine and the apartment building at 25 rue Benjamin Franklin in Paris designed by Auguste Perret. The other two relate to theoretical works – using concrete and reinforced concrete in...
SOCIAL SCIENCES: Section Information and Library Science2018