the aesthetics of concrete. the concrete joint sustainability initiative is a multi-association...
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The Aesthetics
of Concrete
The Concrete Joint Sustainability Initiative is a multi-association
effort of the Concrete Industry
supply chain to take unified and integrated action for
Sustainable Development
Concrete JSI members have signed a joint agreement
committing to act on 9 Declarations.
Declaration #4 addresses 8 Social Values of Concrete Structures
http://www.sustainableconcrete.org
Declaration #4:
“Our integrated thinking will focus on the following
Social Values provided by Concrete Structures”:
1. Resource efficiency 5. By-product reduction
2. Safety/protection 6. Aesthetics
3. Financial responsibility 7. Societal connectivity
4. Operational continuity 8. Longevity/durability
Concrete Structures Social Value:
The “Aesthetics of Concrete”
Joint Sustainability Initiative - Social Value #7
Aesthetics: What it Means
“There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through” - Dan Rice
“The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence” - - Eero Saarinen
A branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste.
Vitruvius:fermitas, utilitas, venustas
Firmness, Commodity, and Delight
Glen Canyon Dam, Utah Confederation Bridges, PEI, Canada Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Aesthetics in Concrete
“Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.” - Antonio Gaudi
Hoover Dam, Arizona
Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
Historic Structures
“Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the
reflection of society.” - I M Pei
Pantheon – Rome circa 112 ad
City Skylines shaped with Concrete
“Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.” - Ernest Dimnet
Concrete Building Systems
Structures for Transportation
Beauty can be expressed in the structural efficiency, simplicity, and repetition of a bridge.
“Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.”
- Louis Kahn
Millau Viaduct, France
Rogue River Bridge, Oregon
Structures for the Masses
“The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence” - Eero Saarinen
DULLES International, Virginia
TWA Terminal, New York
Structures as Form
“A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.” - Curtis Fentress
Miami Children’s Museum, Florida
Structures that Serve
Fossil Ridge Intermediate School, St. George, UT
Public Building, Chandigarh, India
“Less is More” Mies van der Rohe
Structures That Celebrate
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
“Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.” - Frank Lloyd Wright
Structures As Art
“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.” - Frank Lloyd Wright
Guggenheim Museum, New York City Sydney Opera House, Australia
Structures that Inspire
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.” - Le Corbusier
Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut,Ronchamp, France
Structures for the Spirit
“Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.”
Victor Hugo
Structures for Living“Form follows function.” - Louis Sullivan
Kaufman Residence, Pennsylvania
Hundertwasserhaus, Austria
Structures for Work“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.” – Frank Gehry
Johnson Wax, Wisconsin
Structures for CommerceStapleton B-4, Denver, CO
Falls Point Shopping Center
Raleigh, NC“Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.” - Julia Morgan
Sibaya Casino, South Africa
“Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Structures for Entertainment
Structures as Sculpture
“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates persons in that space.” - Philip Johnson
Structures for Landscapes
Structures as Scenery
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” - Leonardo da Vinci
Concrete Surfaces for Work and Play
Concrete is our Future
“Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.“Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Thank You
American Coal Ash Association American Concrete Institute American Concrete Pipe Association American Shotcrete Association American Society of Concrete Contractors Architectural Precast Association American Segmental Bridge Institute Cast Stone Institute Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute Concrete Sawing & Drilling Association Concrete Foundations Association Expanded Shale, Clay and Slate Institute
Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute International Concrete Repair Institute National Concrete Masonry Association National Precast Concrete Association National Ready Mixed Concrete Association Portland Cement Association Post-Tensioning Institute Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute RMC Research and Education Foundation Silica Fume Association Slag Cement Association Tile Roofing Institute Tilt-Up Concrete Association Wire Reinforcement Institute