The Epic of Concrete: The Stone Humanity Learned to Pour

Concrete is introduced as the daughter of sand, water, cement and stone, a material that arrives without a form and accepts every dream. The Romans and the Pantheon come first, then Auguste Perret teaches it elegance, Le Corbusier turns it into a city at the Unité d'Habitation and into prayer at Ronchamp, and Oscar Niemeyer asks why it must always stand straight. Pier Luigi Nervi makes it engineering, Félix Candela pushes it toward delicacy in Mexico, Eero Saarinen prepares it to fly at the TWA Flight Center, Louis Kahn gives it permanence and Tadao Ando gives it silence. Bridges, the hidden city underground, the steel that corrodes inside it and its weight on the earth follow, before concrete speaks for itself as water that entered the heart of stone.