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"A New Book on Concrete's Architectural Possibilities\nA new book explores one of the world's most basic materials\u2014and the sublime structures composed of it\nLe Corbusier applied a rough finish of sprayed concrete on the exterior of Chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut in Ronchamp, France, completed in 1955. The material provides an earthly foothold to the building's sweeping gestures and gravity-taunting roof.\nLuis Barrag\u00E1n was best known for refining projects throughout construction, as he did with Cuadra San Crist\u00F3bal, a private estate built in 1968 in Mexico City. Cloth walls were employed to finalize the syncopated layout, and colored paper helped to determine the optimum combination of the architect's famously vibrant hues. Essayist Leonard Koren explains, \"Barrag\u00E1n's architecture emphatically announces that concrete need not be drab, or even grey!\"\nKoren writes that sinuous concrete works such as Berthold Lubetkin's 1934 Penguin Pool for the London Zoo are \"three-dimensional poetry.\" Here, a double helix imperceptibly adjoins an encasing structure for a whimsical moment in modernism.\nThe material's mutability is perhaps best exemplified by the stunning curvature of Norihiko Dan's Sun Moon Lake Visitor Centre, built in Taiwan in 2010. The in situ concrete will forever carry the grained imprint of the wood framework used for its mold.\nConcrete, edited by William Hall with an introductory essay by Leonard Koren (Phaidon, $49.95)."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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