Concrete Materiality
What is material as such in architecture? The article addresses this question examining sources from the 18th century to today, from Carlo Lodoli and Peter Zumthor. It was necessary, according to Lodoli, to study the material in question and find the appropriate forms for it. Discusses in the article is the importance of materiality in architecture and how the materiality refers to the solidity of the material which follows on well from last weeks reading.
As a material concrete is very flexible with the advances in todays technology and the understanding of the material itself. Concrete today is still at large being used for foundation structures, the constant development of the structure is what makes it so successful today. Concrete is a material I use in my spaces to create a fearful daunting atmosphere this reading has inspired me to look at different effects and feelings concrete may achieve.
(The Principle of Cladding): 'Every material possesses its own language of forms,
and none may lay claim for itself to the forms of another
material. For forms have been constituted out of the
applicability and the methods of production of
materials. They have come into being with and through
materials. No material permits an encroachment into
its own circle of forms. Whoever dares to make such an
encroachment notwithstanding this is branded by the
world a counterfeiter.'
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