John Sedgwick: "Concrete is second only to water as the world's most heavily consumed substance. Slightly more than a ton of concrete is produced every year for each human being on the planet, some six billion tons a year altogether."
from "Strong but Sensitive," Atlantic 1991
qt'd by Brand, 125
> from Stewart Brand's How Buildings Learn (1994)
> tagged with #materials
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