Book Launch for Post-Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Engineering

Date:Thursday, April 26, 2012, 7:00 pm
Location: Van Alen Books, 30 West 22nd Street, New York, NY, 212-924-7000
Sponsored By:Columbia GSAPP

Book launch event for Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Engineering
Edited by Michael Bell and Craig Buckley
Princeton Architecture Press and GSAPP Books
With brief remarks by:
José Rafael Moneo, Architect and Professor, Harvard GSD
Mark Wigley, Columbia University GSAPP
Mabel Wilson, Columbia University GSAPP
Gary Higbee, Steel and Ornamental Metal Institutes of New York

Metals, as surface or structure, play a role in nearly every strain of modern architecture.
Non-architectural metals in the form of automobiles and hard goods are the engines of
our sprawling cities. Known for superior strength, metals allow us to build higher and
span greater distances. However, they can also be soft, forgiving, and ethereal. In Post-
Ductility, an inter-disciplinary group of architects, historians, theorists, and engineers
collectively explores the past, present, and future possibilities of this essential building
material. Post-Ductility includes works and essays by contemporary architects,
engineers, and educators such as José Rafael Moneo, Steven Holl, Rory McGowan,
Mark Wigley, Sylvia Lavin, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Paola Antonelli, Ana Miljacki, Hillary
Sample, Galia Solomonoff and Theodore Prudon.

Van Alen Books, 30 West 22nd Street, New York, NY, 212-924-7000

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