Image courtesy of Columbia University GSAPP and the participants of the conference.

Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering

2009 / 58 min. / color
Directed by Michael Blackwood

Filmed in October 2008 at the second international conference on the changing state of materials in architecture with the participation of prominent architects and engineers, hosted by Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture.

Concrete is entering a renewed era of development with worldwide implications and under radically new economic circumstances. What are the futures of concrete in architecture and engineering in terms of technologies of reinforcement, materials science, geographic production, installation, and environmental impact? Where will innovation happen and what will instigate potentials in design and engineering? Will alternate techniques create a virtual strain or quasi-alloy, leading to a potential realm of coordinated material action?

Directed by
Michael Blackwood

Cast
Michael Bell
Angelo Bucci
Pascal Casanova
Jean Louis Cohen
Preston Scott Cohen
Carlos Eduardo Comas
Neil Denari
Jacques Ferrier
Kenneth Frampton
Benjamin A. Graybeal
Laurie Hawkinson
Juan Herreros
Steven Holl
Sanford Kwinter
Bruno Lafont
Jacques Lukasik
Qingyun Ma
Reinhold Martin
Fernando Menis
Detlef Mertins
Christian Meyer
Marc Mimram
Paulo Monteiro
Toshiko Mori
Antonio Naaman
Guy Nordenson
Kate Orff
Antoine Picon
Jesse Reiser
Jacques Resplendido
Stanley Saitowitz
Hans Schober
Matthias Schuler
Ysrael A. Seinuk
Pierluigi Serraino
Surendra Shah
Werner Sobek
Heiko Trumpf
Bernard Tschumi
Nanako Umemoto
Mark Wigley
Mabel Wilson