Reinforced concrete is a base material of our art. We architects are up to our knees in concrete most of the time, whether laying it out new, or thinking about some concrete structure that has come into our hands. In this Bulletin we look closer at the way concrete came into our art not very long ago. Expert accounts show something of the threads of its way into our environment on the merits its various great properties. Sean Johnson and Ian Stapleton Jack Arch Construction - Its origins and use in NSW charts the hybrid construction of mass concrete on curved iron vaults from its British innovation for fire protection of industrial structures, to its adoption in the hands of Australian Public architects as useful practically and architecturally. They raise the surprising structural results of their research during conservation works.
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