Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Foreword xv
5. Introduction xxi
6. Preface to the First Edition lxi
7. The Discovery of a New Material
8. Beton 19
9. Concrete 36
10. Reinforcement 56
11. Exploitation and Development 76
12. The Search For A New Architecture
13. The Nineteenth Century 97
14. The Twentieth Century 112
15. The Contribution of Auguste Ferret
16. The Student 153
17. The Apprentice 173
18. The Theorist 194
19. The Constructor 224
20. The Master 270
21. Notes 289
22. Three Unpublished Essays by Collins
23. The Classicism of Auguste Ferret 303
24. The New Brutalism of the 1920s 315
25. Perret’s Articulation of Reinforced Concrete Frames 341
26. Index 353