The design is based on Virilio’s photographs of the bunkers that form the Atlantic Wall. The military example is adopted so directly that the building remained unique and did not become an archetype. It does however broach the question whether many sc…
Archives: Brutalisms
Andrews Building, Scarborough College (today University of Toronto)
The Andrews Building forms the cornerstone for the then newly established first satellite campus of the University of Toronto. With all the main pathways on the inside, its façade design and its meandering footprint the building responds exceptionally …
La Tourette
The ensemble was donation-financed and kept deliberately plain. Only a few elements are realized in a more elaborate form using cast-in-place concrete. Here, Le Corbusier, one of the role models of the brutalist architects of the 1950s, created a struct…