le Roux, H. orcid.org/0000-0003-1014-4318 (2022) Circulating asbestos: The International AC Review, 1956-1985. In: Förster, K., (ed.) Environmental Histories of Architecture. Canadian Centre for Architecture , Montreal , 6-1-6-17. ISBN 9781927071861
Abstract
Hannah le Roux follows the material flows and corporate geographies of asbestos-cement, a construction material that proliferated globally in the twentieth century. As a challenge to architectural history and media, the essay reveals the industrial, academic, professional, and political links between modernity and toxicity: le Roux traces how the Swiss-based multinational Eternit marketed its asbestos product from the 1950s on through the company magazine ac: International asbestos-cement review; how architectural historian Sigfried Giedion placed himself at the service of industry by promoting asbestos-cement in writing for ac review and by using it to build his own home; and how, through the efforts of the United Nations, the material became widespread in the Global South through prefabricated housing. Even after bans in many countries, the lingering presence of asbestos-cement is a form of “slow violence” that suggests the need for a “slower science.”
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal. This open-access publication is made available according to the terms of the license CC BY-NC-ND, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Architecture (Sheffield) |
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Date Deposited: | 26 Jan 2024 09:38 |
Last Modified: | 27 Jan 2024 00:33 |
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