Archives: Brutalisms

Soldier’s House (Beit Hachyal)

The complex is a hostel for soldiers. While the lower block houses facilities like a library, classrooms, a synagogue, offices and a banquet hall, a four story block above it contains the dorm rooms. Elevators and the chimney are housed in the prominent…

Ulster Museum Extension

The architect’s choice of façade ingeniously combines the extension wing with the classic main building , creating a transition that is almost as ironic as the later post-Modernists: yet interweaving and separation are harmoniously deployed in a game…

Vilas Communication Hall, University of Wisconsin

Like the adjacent Mosse Humanities Building, which is connected with a footbridge, the Vilas Communication Hall follows a Brutalist design language as well. However, here it is executed in a more monumental way. Multiple interjoined volumes form a vigor…

Torres Blancas

Originally, the plans included two towers. The building relies on the metaphor of a growing tree and is considered the most prominent example of organic architecture in Spain.

Josef und Eva Hellenthal Residence

The house is reminiscent of early projects from Le Corbusier or Giuseppe Terragni. However Lüth omits the white plaster for raw exposed concrete.

Church of Reconciliation (Versöhnungskirche)

The craggy, raw exposed concrete exterior is reminiscent of rock structures. The church can house up to 400 people and is complemented by secondary buildings for a parish hall and rectory. The irregular trapezoid floor plan and the diagonal positioning …

Birmingham Central Library

As part of a large scale redevelopment program the library was Europe’s largest non-national municipal library. For political and financial reasons most of the planned buildings were never realized. Prince Charles stated the building looked like�…

Keeling House

Banham took this complex as an example for new trends in building in clusters.

Boeskay Houses

Inspired by the Maison Jaoul exposed concrete levels are combined with brick walls. However, unlike Le Corbusier’s project, the walls are not supporting. Incorporating local traditions the six single houses are arranged around a large central courtyard.

Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad de la República

The School is an extremely early South American example of the extensive use of exposed concrete. The layout permits the rooms to be used flexibly. Some of the structures recall factory buildings, in other words anticipating the anonymous formal languag…

Volksschule Dopschstraße

The school with its exposed concrete facade and terraces follows the concept of a residence building—the planners wanted to keep the use flexible for the future, when they expected to have less children and no more need for this school in the developm…

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