Concrete Houses: The Poetics of Form

An exploration of the use of concrete in landmark contemporary residential architecture.

Concrete has conviction, strength and directness. It has plasticity, too, which makesthe possibilities for form-making almost endless.

Concrete Houses explores the sculptural possibilities of concrete as the materialof choice in landmark contemporary houses across Australia, Brazil, Portugal, Japan,Sweden, the Netherlands and the USA, from the hands of major internationalarchitects including Sou Fujimoto, Tom Kundig, Valerio Olgiati and Marcio Kogan, andAustralians such as Peter Stutchbury, Alex Popov, Ian McDougall and Neil Durbach.Illustrated throughout with exceptional colour photography, and selected plansand drawings, Concrete Houses celebrates the incontrovertible fusion of concrete sversatility and brute force to make timeless architecture of lyric beauty.