inspiration to concrete idea and, eventually, real product. Illustrated throughout with insights from

-structure : elements -- 20. Building services -- 21. Interior elements and finishes -- 22. Concrete construction -- 23

) -- Jean (Hans) Arp, `Concrete Art'(1942) -- Lucio Fontana, `White Manifesto'(1946) -- Edgar Bayley and

-- Polymers -- Masonry: house construction -- Foundations, basements and demolition -- Concrete construction

Realism -- 5. Rome: An Art Set in Concrete -- 6. Monotheism: Basilica, Mosque and Tomb -- 7. Dynamics of

-1952: Beginnings -- II. 1953-1959: Under the spell of the concrete -- III. 1960-1970: Breaking the

concrete theory, but it is ridiculed by the rest of her group ... until a killer murders and mutilates one

from the 1950s on the intricate intersection of technology and art gain heightened value. The concrete