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This research paper is an ‘embracement of concrete’. It’s about millenniums of evolutionary changes of the material - which is often questioned at being a material - still struggling to get itself defined; getting better, and perhaps new. The paper represents the developments and innovations in concrete; the material which has been at the core of contemporary discussions and experiments, leading to avant-garde horizons exhibiting its capabilities and possibilities. It aims to comprehend the imminent capabilities and dimensions of aestheticized morality of concrete in the contemporary architecture, spurred along its evolutionary process. It’s about knowing the ‘whats’ of concrete and an attempt to provoke discussion and study of the material. Further, the objective is to establish a relation between the developments in concrete, and the developments in architectural languages and philosophies generating the so-called contemporary ‘isms’ of architecture with redefined ‘ethics and aesthetics’ of the material. The analysis contributes valuable sagacity into concrete’s prolonged trajectory as an architectural material and is an insight into what the future for such an ancient material looks like. The overall vision is to anticipate what more is yet to come out from concrete.

Keywords

Concrete; Architecture; Contemporary; Ethics; Evolution

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