Archives: Brutalisms

Villa Sarabhai

The Villa Sarabhai is situated in Shahibag on the east side of the river. Parallel brick walls create long rooms. Strong beams allow the creation of wide rooms and large windows. These spaces together form a long series of vaults. Lengthwise, the house …

Izbor Department Store

An excellent example of the utopian socialist buildings of former Tito-Yugoslavia, far from the boring and uninspired socialist prefab-building of the late 1980’s. The Department store forms a complete center with piazza and different urban situat…

Premabhai Hall

The Premabhai hall is located in the Old City of Ahmedabad. Due to its large dimension, the building is reminiscent of an ancient monumental sculpture. Doshi designed this post-Corbusian Brutalist piece of architecture in 1956 as a modern public theater…

Technisches Rathaus

The architects won the competition in 1963 ahead of renowned architects such as Walter Gropius and Hans Scharoun. Due to various reasons however the winning design had been subsequently modified several times. Not long after the inauguration this led to…

Resurrection of Christ Church (Kirche Christi Auferstehung)

This hall church has an irregular polygonal plan with pyramiding building structures made of brick and concrete. Several building sections grow gradually in the air and end off in sloping roof surfaces. Inside, there is a cave-like atmosphere. The inter…

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