Innovation of construction systems versus reproducibility of the architectural image. Multiple constructional processes in the 'Unité d'Habitation' (1945–67)
Autor(en): |
Franz Graf
|
---|---|
Medium: | Tagungsbeitrag |
Sprache(n): | Englisch |
Tagung: | 6th International Congress on Construction History (6ICCH 2018), July 9-13, 2018, Brussels, Belgium |
Veröffentlicht in: | Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories [2 vols.] |
Seite(n): | 691-696 |
Jahr: | 2018 |
Abstrakt: |
This paper analyses, on the basis of the corpus of the Unités d'habitation, the great diversity of the construction systems adopted in the 1950s and 60 s to meet the need to build ‘for the greatest number' in the form of a typological invention covered with an envelope that is iconic and apparently stable, indeed rigid. |