Concrete Reborn
Widely pronounced dead several years ago, concrete has entered a new and astonishingly vital cycle. The range of exciting forms arising at the crossroads of scientific research, technological innovation, and architectural fantasy, is stunning and deserves discussion.

With the contributors to Liquid Stone, New Architecture in Concrete (2006)

Jean-Louis Cohen, an architect, historian, and the Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University;

G. Martin Moeller, Jr., senior vice-president of the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., and curator of the exhibition "Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete," organized and presented by the Museum from 2004 to 2006;

Guy Nordenson, a structural engineer and partner of Guy Nordenson and Associates, New York, and a professor at the School of Architecture, Princeton University;

Antoine Picon, an architect, engineer, and historian, and a professor of the history of architecture and technology at the Harvard Design School;

Franz-Josef Ulm, an engineer and professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology;

Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, architects with an international practice based in New York City and designers of the "Liquid Stone" exhibition at the National Building Museum; and

Dr. Jacques Lukasik, Senior Vice President for Scientific Affairs at Lafarge Group, the world leader in building materials.

Moderated by: Nicolai Ouroussoff, Architecture Critic, The New York Times

Co-sponsored by Lafarge