Brutalism


This Brutal World
Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain
Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism
CLOG: Brutalism
Simon Phipps Finding Brutalism: A Photographic Survey of Post-War British Architecture
Alison & Peter Smithson: A Critical Anthology
Borderlines: A History of Europe, Told from the Edges
Soviet Bus Stops
Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
Return to the Black Farm (The Black Farm, #2)
The Black Farm (The Black Farm, #1)
The Crooked God Machine
There Are No Saints (Sinners, #1)
The Outer Darkness
The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People
Bauhaus by Jeannine FiedlerThe Indiscipline of Painting /anglais by CLARCK MARTINFinding Vincent by Les FurnanzWild by Graham BoyntonAction Painting by Robert Fleck
Art -‘isms’ of the 20th Century
102 books — 4 voters
Brutalist Britain by Elain HarwoodRedefining Brutalism by Simon HenleyBrutalism by Alexander ClementChinese Brutalism Today by Alberto BolognaThe Art of Brutalism by Ben Highmore
Brutalist Architecture
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Sofia Ajram
I have no idea what to believe I’ll find in here anymore. You could park a Costco in one of these rooms and I’d just nod along once I found it, like, Uh-huh. Okay, sure. Of course.
Sofia Ajram, Coup de Grâce

Osbert Lancaster
Structural truth at all costs war their motto and all buildings which attempted to conceal the true nature of their construction, or to disguise the materials in which they were carried out, stood convicted of acting a lie. That a high proportion of the buildings which many generations of man-kind had agreed to regard as masterpieces failed to reach this exalted standard was held to be quite irrelevant. Unfortunately the new theory did not in practice prove quite so easy to carry out satisfactor ...more
Osbert Lancaster, Here, of All Places

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