Redefining Brutalism

Simon Henley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2017
RIBA Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-85946-577-6 (ISBN)

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This book is unique in combining beautiful, highly illustrated design with description of both British and International brutalist buildings and architects, alongside analysis of the present and future of brutalism.

People associate the term Brutalism with concrete and, in the UK, with the Welfare State – just one thin slice of the Brutalist canon. Brutalism is not a style. It reveals enduring
architectural ideas and interests that have emerged at different times and in
different places, prompted by social and political ideals and technological
conditions.

Richly illustrated with unique, high-quality photographs, this book explores Brutalism through
the lens of twelve distinct, occasionally competing, definitions, as a living and evolving entity. Redefining Brutalism offers insight into how these
buildings were designed and constructed, their underlying social contexts, and
how Brutalism triggered various other movements such as High-tech and Postmodernism. This
book is a lens through which to see the present as much as the past.

Simon Henley is an architect and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a co-founder of award-winning practice Henley Halebrown, and was UK Public Building Architect of the Year in 2011. Simon is the author of The Architecture of Parking and writes for ArchDaily. He teaches on the MArch programme at Kingston University.

Prologue

1. Brutalism
is not a Corpse

2. Ethic or
Aesthetic?

3. Muck or
Ore?

4. Concrete

5. A Second
Arts & Crafts Movement

6. Brickalism

7. The
Social Question / Architecture or Revolution

8. An
Innocent State

9. Precast

10. Bombproof
Brutalism

11. The
Brutalist City

12. Adaptation
and neo-Brutalism

Conclusion:
Construction Per Se

Erscheinungsdatum	26.07.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	196 x 215 mm
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-85946-577-3 / 1859465773
ISBN-13	978-1-85946-577-6 / 9781859465776
Zustand	Neuware