Archives: Brutalisms

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

I. M. Pei chose to build upward to take advantage of the views. The distinctive look and neutral color of the board-formed concrete is complemented by the numerous windows Pei used to engage the landscape with the building itself. On almost every leve…

Berkeley Art Museum, University of California

Shaped like a fan, Ciampi’s building adapts itself to Berkeley’s wavy landscape. Large, connected exposed concrete blocks form a dramatic general view. On the inside the dynamic design could almost be called proto-deconstructivist: robust concrete p…

Ayala Museum

The Ayala Museum is another example of the bad reputation of Brutalism. It has been demolished in 2001 to be rebuilt by the same architect. The new building however follows a very different design language. The original sculptural, interlocked, puristic…

COPELEC (Cooperativa de Servicios Eléctricos)

This building can be seen as an eclectic collection of a broad range of Le Corbusier designs. An abstract grid, as seen in Ahmedabad, is placed right next to a wavy wall with small windows, as seen at the Chapelle de Ronchamp and La Tourette. Sculptural…

Harumi Apartment Buildings

Banham emphasizes that the Harumi Apartments were actually built four years before Kenzo Tange’s Kurashiki City Hall. He uses the example to illustrate Maekawa’s pioneering role in Japanese brutalism.

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