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From the straight boulevards that smashed their way through rambling old Paris to create the city we know today to the televised implosion of Las Vegas casinos to make room for America's ever grander desert of dreams, demolition has long played an ambiguous role in our lives. In lively, colorful prose, Rubble rides the wrecking ball through key episodes in the world of demolition. Stretching over more than five hundred years of razing and toppling, this story looks back to London's Great Fire of 1666, where self-deputized wreckers artfully blew houses apart with barrels of gunpowder to halt the furious blaze, and spotlights the advent of dynamite-courtesy of demolition's patron saint, Alfred Nobel-that would later fuel epochal feats of unbuilding such as the implosion of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis. Rubble also delves beyond these bravura blasts to survey the world-jarring invention of the wrecking ball; the oddly stirring ruin of New York's old Pennsylvania Station, that potent symbol of the wrecker run amok; and the ever busy bulldozers in places as diverse as Detroit, Berlin, and the British countryside. Rich with stories of demolition's quirky impresarios-including Mark Loizeaux, the world-famous engineer of destruction who brought Seattle's Kingdome to the ground in mere seconds-this account makes first-hand forays to implosion sites and digs extensively into wrecking's little-known historical record. Rubble is also an exploration of what happens when buildings fall, when monuments topple into memory, and when "destructive creativity" tears down to build again. It unearths the world of demolition for the first time and, along the way, throws a penetrating light on the role that destruction must play in our lives as a necessary prelude to renewal. Told with arresting detail and energy, this tale goes to the heart of the scientific, social, economic, and personal meaning of how we unbuild our world. Rubble is the first-ever biography of the wrecking trade, a riveting, character-filled narrative of how the black art of demolition grew to become a multibillion-dollar business, an extreme spectator sport, and a touchstone for what we value, what we disdain, who we were, and what we wish to become.

Wrecking --- Construction industry --- History. --- Démolition --- Construction --- Histoire --- Industrie --- Histoire. --- Ruines --- Démolition

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Industrial manufacturers are increasingly using very high pressure water jets for the cleaning and breaking up of materials. Until recently, the demolition of reinforced concrete has been a long and difficult process, but developments in the design and use of high pressure water jets have made this a cleaner and faster process with many other applications in civil, construction and environmental engineering. Andreas Momber, a well known expert in water jet and abrasive water jet cutting technology has produced a unique and comprehensive book dealing with the fundamentals of the hyd

Wrecking. --- Water jets. --- Concrete --- Reinforced concrete construction. --- Finishing. --- Concrete construction --- Concrete finishes --- Concrete surface finishes --- Finishes and finishing --- Water-jet --- Waterjets --- Hydraulic engineering --- Jets --- Demolition --- Building --- Construction industry --- Formwork

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Le chantier est une ambition, un processus et un théâtre où se jouent la transformation physique du monde et l'imaginaire de nos sociétés. C'est un lieu éminemment technique, mais c'est aussi un puissant instrument de pouvoir, un théâtre de la société où les grands aiment se faire représenter et où les artisans apparaissent tantôt comme des héros de la modernisation des villes, tantôt comme des exploités. À partir du XXe siècle, il inspire les architectes et les artistes par son processus et son caractère provisoire et contribue à transformer l'art et l'architecture. Ce sont ces différentes facettes que l'exposition a l'ambition de dévoiler à travers un très grand nombre d'oeuvres, de maquettes et d'objets. L'objectif est de faire découvrir des installations et des pratiques techniques par nature temporaires : gestes, machines, procédés disparus, mais aussi des pratiques sociales, politiques et artistiques moins connues. 00Exhibition: Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine, Paris, France (09.11.2018 - 24.03.2019).

Chantiers de construction --- Histoire --- Building in art --- Building sites --- Construction dans l'art --- Photographie artistique --- History --- Démolition --- Histoire de la construction --- Chantier --- Photography, Artistic --- Building in art. --- Buildings in art. --- Building sites. --- Wrecking. --- Photography, Artistic. --- 1500-1999 --- Civil engineering. Building industry --- Art --- art history --- building sites --- 1500-1999. --- Histoire.

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Onze contributions consacrées à différentes déclinaisons dans le temps et dans l'espace, de la Rome antique jusqu'à Bruxelles à l'aube du XXe siècle, du phénomène de destructions volontaires d'objets matériels : l'importance réelle de l'acte destructeur, sa condamnation ou sa légitimation par les contemporains, que ce soient des édifices religieux, des textes ou des actes de cannibalisme.

Wrecking --- Buildings --- Démolition --- Dommages de guerre --- History --- War damage --- Histoire --- 024.8 --- 355.018 --- 930.85 --- Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken door gebruikers. Checkpoint --- Gevolgen van de oorlog. Oorlogsschade --- Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis --- 930.85 Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis --- 355.018 Gevolgen van de oorlog. Oorlogsschade --- 024.8 Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken door gebruikers. Checkpoint --- Aggressiveness. --- Architecture --- Civilization. --- Cultural property and war. --- Disasters --- HISTORY --- Human behavior. --- Iconoclasm. --- Philosophy and civilization. --- Religious architecture --- Mutilation, defacement, etc. --- Social aspects. --- World. --- Vandalism. --- Démolition --- Iconoclasm --- Idols and images --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- Calamities --- Catastrophes --- Curiosities and wonders --- Accidents --- Hazardous geographic environments --- Aggression (Psychology) --- Aggressive behavior --- Aggressiveness (Psychology) --- Psychology --- Defensiveness (Psychology) --- Fighting (Psychology) --- Toughness (Personality trait) --- Spiritual architecture --- Defacement of architecture --- Malicious mischief --- Mutilation --- Vandalism --- Civilization and philosophy --- Civilization --- Action, Human --- Behavior, Human --- Ethology --- Human action --- Human beings --- Human biology --- Physical anthropology --- Social sciences --- Psychology, Comparative --- Worship --- Defacement --- Behavior --- Pillage --- Political persecution --- Crime de guerre --- --Pillage --- --Histoire --- --Crime de guerre --- --Aggressiveness. --- --024.8 --- 024.8 Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken (door gebruikers). --- Beschadiging, verlies en diefstal van boeken (door gebruikers). --- History.