Joint
Sustainability
Initiative
The
Aesthetics
of
Concrete
The Joint Sustainability Initiative (JSI) is
a multi-association effort of the
concrete structures industry
supply chain to take unified and
integrated action on
Sustainable Development
JSI members have signed a joint agreement
committing to act on 9 Declarations.
http://www.concretejsi.com/about/declaration.HTM
Declaration #4 addresses the
8 Social Values of Concrete Structures
Declaration #4:
“Our integrated thinking will focus on the following
Social Values provided by Concrete Structures”:
1. Resource efficiency
5. Longevity/durability
2. Safety/protection
6. By-product reduction
3. Financial responsibility
7. Aesthetics
4. Operational continuity
8. Societal connectivity
Joint Sustainability Initiative - Social Value #7
Concrete Structures Social Value:
The “Aesthetics of Concrete”
Aesthetics: What it Means
A branch of philosophy dealing with the
nature of beauty, art, and taste.
“There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at,
sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can
walk through”
- Dan Rice
“The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on
earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence” - Eero Saarinen
Vitruvius:
fermitas, utilitas, venustas
Firmness, Commodity, and Delight
Glen Canyon Dam, Utah
Confederation Bridges, PEI, Canada
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Aesthetics in Concrete
Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
Hoover Dam, Arizona
“Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.” - Antonio Gaudi
Historic Structures
Pantheon – Rome circa 112 ad
“Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on
buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the
reflection of society.”
- I M Pei
City Skylines shaped with Concrete
“Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts
the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.” Ernest Dimnet
Concrete Building Systems
Structures for
Transportation
Rogue River Bridge, Oregon
“Design is not making beauty,
beauty emerges from selection,
affinities, integration, love.”
- Louis Kahn
Beauty can be expressed
in the structural
efficiency, simplicity, and
repetition of a bridge.
Millau Viaduct, France
TWA Terminal, New York
Structures for
the Masses
DULLES International, Virginia
“The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and
to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence” - Eero Saarinen
Structures as Form
Miami Children’s Museum, Florida
“A bold architectural statement turns
a public building into a landmark, but
it is in the details where the architect
becomes the real storyteller.”
Curtis Fentress
Structures that Serve
“Less is More”
Mies van der Rohe
Public Building, Chandigarh, India
Fossil Ridge Intermediate School,
St. George, UT
Structures That Celebrate
“Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great
original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Milwaukee Art Museum,
Wisconsin
Structures As Art
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Sydney Opera House, Australia
“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own
we have no soul of our own civilization.”
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Structures that
Inspire
Chapelle Notre
Dame du Haut,
Ronchamp,
France
“Architecture is the learned game, correct
and magnificent, of forms assembled in
the light.”
- Le Corbusier
Structures for the Spirit
“Architecture has recorded
the great ideas of the human
race. Not only every religious
symbol, but every human
thought has its page in that
vast book.”
Victor Hugo
“Form follows function.”
- Louis Sullivan
Structures for Living
Kaufman Residence, Pennsylvania
Hundertwasserhaus, Austria
Structures for Work
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.” –
Frank Gehry
Johnson Wax, Wisconsin
Structures for Commerce
Stapleton B-4, Denver, CO
“Architecture is a visual art, and the
buildings speak for themselves.” Julia Morgan
Falls Point Shopping Center
Raleigh, NC
Structures for
Entertainment
Sibaya Casino, South Africa
“Architecture is the triumph of
human imagination over
materials, methods, and men, to
put man into possession of his
own earth.
- Frank Lloyd
Wright
Structures as Sculpture
“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that
contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates persons in that space.”
Philip Johnson
Structures for Landscapes
Structures as Scenery
“Simplicity is the ultimate
sophistication.” - Leonardo da
Vinci
Concrete Surfaces for Work and Play
Concrete is our Future
“Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.“
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Thank You
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American Concrete Institute
American Shotcrete Association
American Society of Concrete
Contractors
Architectural Precast
Association
Cast Stone Institute
Concrete Foundations
Association
Concrete Reinforcing Steel
Institute
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Association
Interlocking Concrete Pavement
Institute
International Concrete Repair
Institute
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Association
National Precast Concrete
Association
National Ready Mixed Concrete
Association
Portland Cement Association
Post-Tensioning Institute
Precast/Prestressed Concrete
Institute
RMC Research and Education
Foundation
Silica Fume Association
Tile Roofing Institute
Tilt-Up Concrete Association