Brutalism

Le Corbusier, Unité d’Habitation, Marseille (1952), Phaidon (ed.), Le Corbusier Le Grand, New York 2008; S. 422

“Brutalism. Architecture of Everyday Culture, Poetry and Theory” Symposium, Berlin, Germany May 10-11, 2012

Organized by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Chair of Architectural Theory, the“Brutalism. Architecture of Everyday Culture, Poetry and Theory” symposium will be taking place in Berlin May 10-11. Their position on this topic is that Brutalism’s critical review of classical modernism and post-war modernism gave rise to a unique laboratory situation, in which modern architectural trends still of relevance today were developed and tested for the very first time. -- ArchDaily

Paul Rudolph, 1918-1997. [Library of Congress Collection, Rudolph Archive]

Reading Rudolph a review by Ian Baldwin -- The Design Observation Group

Orange County Votes to Preserve Paul Rudolph’s Orange County Government Center -- ArchDaily

Paul Rudolph’s Masterpiece at Risk -- ArchDaily

Boston City Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1968 designed by Kallmann, McKinnell, & Knowles

As part of an international competition to design Boston’s City Hall in 1962, three Columbia University professors, Kallmann, McKinnell & Knowles, diverted from the typical sleek, glass and steel structures that were being requested by popular demand.  Rather than basing their design on the material aesthetics, their goal was to accentuate the governmental buildings connection to the public realm.

Completed in 1968, the Brutalist style city hall bridges the public and private sectors of government through a gradient of reveal and exposure that allows the public to become integrated, either physically or visually, into the daily affairs of the governmental process. -- ArchDaily

The incredible hulks: Jonathan Meades' A-Z of brutalism -- The Guardian

Brutalism: How unpopular buildings came back in fashion -- BBC

An Homage to London Brutalism by Thomas Danthony & Michael Abrahamson -- ArchDaily

Source: Federico Cairoli archdaily.com

Gallery: Clorindo Testa’s Banco de Londres Through the Lens of Federico Cairoli 

Argentine photographer and architect Federico Cairoli has shared photos with us of Clorindo Testa’s Banco de Londres (Bank of London) in Buenos Aires. Testa and his firm SEPRA won a competition in 1959 to design the bank and the Brutalist building was completed in 1966.  -- ArchDaily