Concrete has been cast in rigid containers since its invention in antiquity.
The emerging field of flexible formworks for concrete architecture and
structures represents a truly radical change, not only in the technology
of concrete construction, but in the very nature of the architectures
we can build. Over the past 23 years Mark West has been inventing and
developing new construction techniques using simple, inexpensive, flat
sheets of fabric in place of conventional rigid formwork panels. This
work offers proof that new horizons for both architecture and sustainable
construction are held in simple, insightful, re-combinations of
ordinary materials and methods.
The lecture is held in English.