The reviews for Concrete have been coming in, and they're really exciting.
From Resilience: "Soderstrom wants us to understand the vast scope of the challenge we face in transforming our concrete civilization into something sustainable."
From The Tyee: "Concrete ... offer a very readable, thoughtful and well-documented account of a
material that helps and hurts us in almost equal measure.
Rabble says: "It is when she shifts from the social and ecological problems to the artistic and social wonders of concrete that her prose shines and her reasons for writing the book are clear. Her more figurative approach to concrete as the, well, concrete embodiment of our dreams and ambitions is passionate and for that reason infectious. Descriptions of Moshe Safdie's Habitat 67, Oscar Niemeyer's buildings in Brasilia, the Grande Arche in Paris and the Golden Dream Bay in Qinhuangdao: these are where Concrete finds its way."
Read an excerpt in Canadian Architect. They also suggested it as a perfect gift for that materials-geek on your gift list!
Here's a short video about the book, too
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