Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete

National Building Museum

Liquid Stone was an exhibition design collaboration with Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects for which Pure+Applied designed the exhibition graphics. The exhibition featured 30 contemporary architectural projects that used concrete in unusual ways and demonstrated the material’s strength, versatility, and potential. Fields of metal re-bar, set into three-inch-thick concrete plates, became the visual spine for the exhibition. The walls and floors of the exhibition were done in dark grey, in keeping with the subtlety of concrete colors. The display type was set in “safety” orange to reference construction sites. The photos and drawings of the architectural projects were printed on watercolor paper to give the images a tactile and haptic feel.

Curator: Martin Moeller

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