Concrete
$19.98
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2026
Summary
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Concrete has an image problem. Portrayed as boring, cheap, and thoughtless, it is often considered synonymous with bad architecture. For many, concrete is architecture gone wrong – dogmatic, ugly, and as miserably grey as English drizzle.
Stephen Parnell’s Concrete is an apologia of concrete, second only to water as the world’s most consumed mate…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781501383700 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1501383701 |
| Author: | Dr. Stephen Parnell |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 122mm x 164mm |
| Series: | Object Lessons |
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Critics Review
Concrete has been accused of crimes from vulgarity to enabling the climate crisis. Parnell has assembled an excellent, nuanced case for its defence, arguing incisively for a richer understanding of this most divisive and paradoxical of substances, but also for both it and its creators to urgently change their ways. * Tom Dyckhoff, Writer, Historian, Broadcaster, UK *
Dr. Stephen Parnell
Stephen Parnell is an independent architectural writer and historian of modern architecture. He has been an architect, academic, and editor-in-chief of the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Journal of Architecture.
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