Archives: Brutalisms

Civic Hall

This C-shaped civic center contains a large hall (1,075 seats) and a medium size hall (300-500 seats) in its one arm. The remaining L-shape serves as a welfare community center. The facilities are oriented to a shared courtyard in the middle that faces …

Warringah Civic Centre

The building is perched on a steep slope which is spectacularily compensated by very tall, slender stilts, allowing for a common main level. Structure and raw materials are particularly celebrated in this building. On the exterior large precast concrete…

Wolfson Institute, Hammersmith Hospital

The building consists of two main volumes. On top of a lightweight concrete base with large ribbon windows sits a massive exposed concrete block with a more complex geometry that appears from all sides.

Casa Giuliana

The vertically shifted cubic volumes create spaces for balconies as well as an interesting interplay between light and shadow. The scheme is reminiscent of Vladimir Bodiansky’s and ATBAT-Afrique’s social housing project in Casablanca.

Salk Institute

As one of the most prolific mid-century architects, Louis Kahn is usually not categorized as Brutalist. However many facets of his style, especially his love for exposing the building’s structure and building materials fit squarely into Brutalist conc…

Sea Ranch

This project is representative of the question whether some works made in wood should not be included in the Brutalist canon. Here, a love of massive sculpted volumes combines with the zest to render the materials visible and reveal the construction.

Alley Theatre

Franzen used to study under Breuer and Gropius at Harvard. The author Klaus Herdeg took the Theatre as example for the “American deterioration” of the Bauhaus legacy and called the building emblematic for the aestheticization of the Bauhaus formula….

Istituto Marchiondi Spagliardi

Viganò planned this gated institution for delinquent youths on the basis of a new pedagogic concept. Order is demonstrated by the building’s readily comprehensible inner logic and also by the fact that the materials used are plain to see and the pipi…

Berkeley Library Trinity College

The elders of Trinity College Dublin wanted a building that spoke to the 20th century as characteristically as its neighbours the Old Library and Museum Building did to the 18th and 19th centuries respectively. And speak to the 20th century it certainly…

Simon Fraser University

The campus was established in 1963 and lies on a rise on the outskirts of Vancouver. The buildings are relatively flat and in part terraced to blend with the surroundings. The most prominent structures: the Academic Quadrangle and the W.A.C. Library, of…

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