Antoine Picon, "Architecture and technology : Two centuries of creative tension", in J.-L. Cohen, G. Martin Moeller Jr (dir.), Liquid stone New architecture in concrete, New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 2006, pp. 8-19. (original) (raw)

Antoine Picon, "Architecture and technology : Two centuries of creative tension", in J.-L. Cohen, G. Martin Moeller Jr (dir.), Liquid stone New architecture in concrete, New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 2006, pp. 8-19.

As various architects, theorists, and historians have pointed out, no material has been more closely associated with the origins and development of modern architecture than concrete. This status is partly linked to the fact that concrete seemed to epitomize the relations between modern architecture and technology, relations that were seen as crucial by the founding fathers of the modern movement.