The Aesthetics of Concrete

1. The Aesthetics of Concrete

2. The Concrete Joint Sustainability Initiative is a multi-association effort of the Concrete Industrysupply chain to take unified and integrated action forSustainable Development

3. Concrete JSI members have signed a joint agreement committing to act on 9 Declarations. Declaration #4 addresses 8 Social Values of Concrete Structures http://www.sustainableconcrete.org

4. Declaration #4: “Our integrated thinking will focus on the following Social Values provided by Concrete Structures”: 1. Resource efficiency 5. By-product reduction 2. Safety/protection 6. Aesthetics 3. Financial responsibility 7. Societal connectivity 4. Operational continuity 8. Longevity/durability

5. Joint Sustainability Initiative - Social Value #7 Concrete Structures Social Value: The “Aesthetics of Concrete”

6. Aesthetics: What it Means A branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste. “There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through” - Dan Rice “The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence” - - Eero Saarinen

7. Vitruvius:fermitas, utilitas, venustasFirmness, Commodity, and Delight Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin Glen Canyon Dam, Utah Confederation Bridges, PEI, Canada

8. Aesthetics in Concrete Sagrada Familia, Barcelona Hoover Dam, Arizona “Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.” - Antonio Gaudi

9. Historic Structures Pantheon – Rome circa 112 ad “Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.” - I M Pei

10. City Skylines shaped with Concrete “Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.” - Ernest Dimnet

11. Concrete Building Systems

12. Rogue River Bridge, Oregon Structures for Transportation “Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.” - Louis Kahn Beauty can be expressed in the structural efficiency, simplicity, and repetition of a bridge. Millau Viaduct, France

13. TWA Terminal, New York Structures for the Masses DULLES International, Virginia “The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence” - Eero Saarinen

14. Structures as Form Miami Children’s Museum, Florida “A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.” - Curtis Fentress

15. Structures that Serve “Less is More” Mies van der Rohe Public Building, Chandigarh, India Fossil Ridge Intermediate School, St. George, UT

16. Structures That Celebrate “Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.” - Frank Lloyd Wright Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

17. Structures As Art Sydney Opera House, Australia Guggenheim Museum, New York City “The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.” - Frank Lloyd Wright

18. Structures that Inspire Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France “Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.” - Le Corbusier

19. Structures for the Spirit “Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.” Victor Hugo

20. Structures for Living “Form follows function.” 
 - Louis Sullivan Kaufman Residence, Pennsylvania Hundertwasserhaus, Austria

21. Structures for Work “Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.” – Frank Gehry Johnson Wax, Wisconsin

22. Structures for Commerce Stapleton B-4, Denver, CO “Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.” - Julia Morgan • Falls Point Shopping Center • Raleigh, NC

23. Structures for Entertainment Sibaya Casino, South Africa “Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth. - Frank Lloyd Wright

24. Structures as Sculpture “All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates persons in that space.” - Philip Johnson

25. Structures for Landscapes

26. Structures as Scenery “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” - Leonardo da Vinci

27. Concrete Surfaces for Work and Play

28. Concrete is our Future “Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.“ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

29. Thank You American Coal Ash Association American Concrete Institute American Concrete Pipe Association American Shotcrete Association American Society of Concrete Contractors Architectural Precast Association American Segmental Bridge Institute Cast Stone Institute Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute Concrete Sawing & Drilling Association Concrete Foundations Association Expanded Shale, Clay and Slate Institute Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute International Concrete Repair Institute National Concrete Masonry Association National Precast Concrete Association National Ready Mixed Concrete Association Portland Cement Association Post-Tensioning Institute Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute RMC Research and Education Foundation Silica Fume Association Slag Cement Association Tile Roofing Institute Tilt-Up Concrete Association Wire Reinforcement Institute