A Brief History of Plastic Buildings Export

@incollection{citeulike:5342007, abstract = {Synthetic materials from the chemistry lab have always had something remarkable about them. Even the alchemists of old were searching for a synthetic substance supposedly more precious than gold because it would unite all the positive properties of the conventional ” natural” materials. Asplastics were invented in the 19th century and went into large-scale production in the early 20th, it seemed as though this vision had become reality. Architects and engineers linked their hopes and dreams to this ” miracle material”, which apparently could be given all conceivable characteristics. It combined lightness, strength, transparency, thermal insulation capacity, light permeability and loadbearing characteristics, and opened up a world of infinite shapes. Plastics enabled planners to think in terms of bold, futuristic architectural and urban visions and to revolutionise architecture through technoid spatial forms or organically curving engineered structures. They were likewise a symbol of a better, promising future that would know no housing shortages nor climate problems and do justice to the needs of modern society in every respect.}, citeulike-article-id = {5342007}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8287-2_1}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/g65g6385w1347356}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-7643-8287-2_1}, journal = {Transparent Plastics}, keywords = {19thcentury, 20thcentury, alchemy, architecture, buildings, chemistry, climate, engineering, future, history, housing, insulation, light, lightness, loadbearing, materials, modern, modernism, newness, permeability, planning, plastic, precious, remarkable, shape, strength, substance, symbolism, symbols, synthesis, synthetic, thermal, transparency, urban}, pages = {8--23}, posted-at = {2009-08-03 17:58:22}, priority = {2}, title = {A Brief History of Plastic Buildings}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8287-2_1}, year = {2008} }

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