Lecture series - FUSION Concrete

Concrete fascinates, concrete polarizes, concrete is loved and hated at the same time. Without the use of concrete, many of our projects would not be feasible.

Even for Roman master builders, the "Opus Caementitium" played a decisive role in the realization of large buildings and technical structures. Since the ingenious invention of a Joseph Monier, generations of engineers and architects have succumbed to the special properties of this material. The exhibition "SOS Brutalism" at the DAM, Frankfurt/Main recently presented an international survey of the urban planning and architectural highlights of building with concrete that have been realized worldwide at the latest since the designs of Alison and Peter Smithson in the early 1960s.

For many years frowned upon, dismissed by the public and politicians as a building sin, and replaced in many places by naïve reconstructions, the material is now experiencing a true renaissance. The design and construction properties of the material are being rediscovered by a young generation of artists, architects and planners.