Historian Nikolaus Pevsner once said, ‘A cow shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is architecture’. By turning the ...
The building has since been remodeled to cloak the Brutalist design. In the U.K., cities faced damages from Nazi bombing during World War II as well as long-deferred upgrades to public housing.
Brutalist architecture in the United States is a monument to collective postwar optimism and reassurance that the city and federal governments are in authority. Conceived as an embodiment of ...
His contempt for brutalism isn’t surprising, given that it is mostly associated with 1960s-era government and university ...
Oh, and by the way, he designed the Buffalo News Building downtown ... cold or harsh – concrete. In Brutalism, dragging Stone along with it, a style emerged built in hope and clear-cut intention.
For fans of both brutalism and Dr. Seuss, there's only one building that matters: Geisel Library. Named after local La Jolla author and benefactor Theodor Seuss Geisel, the library is the somewhat ...
Recent years have seen the word Brutalism ... The building’s jolly lego-effect was accentuated by the fact that it used to be light blue; sadly the colour has faded to the uniform grey-brown ...