Concrete: boring building material or sexy liquid stone? These architects are obsessed.
"Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering" offers examples and insights into the ever-adapting possibilities of concrete. With the participation of prominent architects and engineers such as Steven Holl, Toshiko Mori and Bernard Tschumi, the lectures consist of footage and theories pertaining to the developments of concrete as a material within the architectural world.
Cinematography
Gorgeous brutalist textures shot like sculptures.
Direction
Blackwood lets concrete breathe, no rush.
Director
Michael Blackwood
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released amid post-2008 recession, the doc quietly champions permanent materials in an era of disposable construction. Concrete as resistance?
Toshiko Mori appears here pre-Harvard GSD chair appointment—rare footage of her praising concrete's 'intimacy' before becoming institutional voice.
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