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Pre-orderFIELD GUIDE — 20TH CENTURY CONCRETE
Seven monuments. Three continents. One material that refuses to apologise. A photographic expedition through the concrete century — surveyed, plated, and filed.
SCROLL TO DESCEND — 66.56°N → 42.73°N
PROLOGUE / HOW TO READ THIS ATLAS
Every monument in this record is approached the same way: from a distance, through the viewfinder, until the concrete fills the frame and there is nowhere left to look.
THE ROUTE / SEVEN LEGS — 14,212 KM
LEG 00 / 07 0 KM
THE LEDGER / ALL FILED MONUMENTS
CONTACT SHEET / UNFILED FRAMES
DISPATCHES / NOTES FROM THE FIELD
DISPATCH 03 — 02.11.2026 · FILED FROM 42.7358°N
Eleven hundred metres of switchbacks, then the fog opened and it was simply there — a concrete disc balanced on the ridgeline, forty years abandoned and still the most certain object in the landscape. We exposed forty plates before our hands stopped working.
READ IN FULL — VOL. I, P. 402 →
DISPATCH 02 — 14.09.2026 · FILED FROM 42.3603°N
The most hated building in America is also the most photographed corner of our archive. Stand under the coffers at noon and the argument ends: this is a civic order poured in place, a city hall that refuses to flatter you into agreement.
READ IN FULL — VOL. I, P. 214 →
DISPATCH 01 — 21.06.2026 · FILED FROM 45.5017°N
Fifty-nine years on, the boxes have grown vines. Residents wave from roofs that belong to their neighbours' living rooms. Utopia, it turns out, weathers exactly like concrete: slowly, honestly, and better than anyone predicted.
READ IN FULL — VOL. I, P. 118 →
PRESS / WHAT THE RECORD SAYS
“Brutalism, finally given the atlas it deserves.”
— WALLPAPER*
“A field guide that reads like a thriller.”
— DEZEEN
“The most confident book about concrete ever assembled.”
— MONOCLE
“The photography alone justifies the edition.”
— ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST
THE VOLUME / EDITION I OF 500
SHIPS SPRING 2027 · WORLDWIDE
EPILOGUE / FIELD NOTE 07
Concrete does not apologise. It records — the weather, the century, the hand of the pour — and waits to be read.
