Series of diagrams that offers a panoramic view of the technological and cultural history of four building materials:
Glass - Concrete - Metals - Plastics
Old materials in the context of the history of humanity, their development has been
accelerated exponentially in the last two hundred years. Theoretical and technical applications have inevitably changed—and continue to change—the role of these materials in architecture and engineering. This visual record traces the ways in which these materials are ever-evolving substances with the capacity to inspire architects and engineers in endless ways, to inform determinately the built environment, and thus to impact our way of living.
Exhibitions series that accompany
The Columbia Conferences on Architecture, Engineering, and Materials
