Back Issues The Crisp Pages Of Concrete Quarterly Studiously Follow The Material That Built The 20th Century, Says Steve Parnell

摘要

On 25 May 1940, it became illegal to start a new magazine due to paper rationing. This may explain a rash of magazines in the immediate post-war period - a rash that included Concrete Quarterly (CQ), which started in July 1947. Its second issue, however, didn't appear until February 1948 and contained the doggerel "Hie "Concrete Quarterly" / Is not as punctual as it ought to be / The reason for this distortage / Is paper shortage'. It's not surprising that the fortunes of CQjnirror that of the material it advocates and whose exciting, unexplored properties promised to solve an optimistic new world's architectural problems.