The decision to include reinforced concrete was made in part after observing in other local buildings the need for basic skills training.
The revolution in building techniques will echo the revolution that occurred with the invention of steel and of reinforced concrete.
By the 1920s the choice of reinforced concrete for major structures in earthquake zones was so common as to be axiomatic.
Having abandoned traditional masonry construction, he employs reinforced concrete to create autonomous volumes with an intense spatial quality.
It was to be built of secondhand railway sleepers cantilevering out of a reinforced concrete wall.
This is covered and is supported by the reinforced concrete vessel.
It is modern materials, iron and then steel and reinforced concrete, which require modern structural analysis.
Within the massive volume, also of reinforced concrete, is carved a fluid yet labyrinthine landscape, organized around a system of two-way waffle slabs with regularized parallelogram waffles and shear walls.
