Title:
The New School of Decorating Concrete
Author(s):
Michael Miller and Kelley Burnham
Publication:
Concrete International
Volume:
25
Issue:
6
Appears on pages(s):
50-54
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DOI:
Date:
6/1/2003
Abstract:
For some 100 years, architectural concrete has been designed, defined, codified, and critiqued primarily by architects and engineers from a distance—a safe distance. Now, the new school of “sensory” concrete is closing the distance. New school materials and tools are the same ones commonly used in producing architectural concrete: integral color, color hardeners, hand saws and grinders, stains and dyes. Spray paints, pastels and crayons, colored pencils, chisels, and carbide-tipped scribes are only a few of the items used additionally in new school applied finishes. Just about anything can be a potential tool or material, and new techniques are developed as ideas continue to evolve.