Iron

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Architecture

ISBN: 9781890449285
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press/Balcony Press
Softcover, 144 pages
21,6 x 27,9 cm
black & white
€23,00 (excl. VAT)

Iron

Erecting the Walt Disney Concert Hall

Gil Garcetti

The graceful curves of Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles are familiar to anyone interested in contemporary architecture or the work of this great master. They are also famous to the ironworkers faced with the challenge of building them. With a building skin stretched tight and tolerances shaved to a thousandth of an inch, there was simply no room for typical industry standards. A new breed of ironworker was required, one who relies on modern tools like lasers, yet whose muscular forms wielding hammers hundreds of feet above the ground testify still to the great unchanging tradition of their trade.

Photographer Gil Garcetti had unparalleled free access to the construction site and documented the sweat and labor it took to build the Hall. Garcetti's evocative images, reproduced in rich duotones, bring to life the romantic ideal of the heavy industry.