Archives: Brutalisms

St. Matthew Church (Matthäuskirche)

The refined use of concrete is still strongly influenced by the churches Auguste Perret designed. At the same time, a fledgling anonymous volume can be discerned here. This places it between the Classicism of the 1920s and the sober, brutalist concrete …

Lecture Centre and Library, University of Cologne

In 1960 Gutbrod won the competition for the lecture hall. Originally, there were three auditoriums  built on stilts. Later on three more halls had been added on the ground floor. The foyer opened to all sides, integrating the building into the path sys…

Sky House

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Ulm School of Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung)

Could one not say that brutalism was invented in parallel in Great Britain and Baden-Württemberg? Max Bill’s programmatic building celebrates the combination of concrete and unplastered brick walls with a similar “rhetorical” surfeit as the Smith…

Church of Christ the King (Christkönig)

Planned as the second Catholic church in Saarlouis in response to the growing population. It is characterized above all by the irregular concrete blinds that also double up as supports.

Kyoto International Conference Center (KICC)

Otani’s design won the major competition, for which there were almost 200 entries. Otani chose a trapezoidal shape as the basis for the huge conference center. The shape is repeated on different scales and thrusts throughout the complex. The different…

Post Office

The exposed concrete building was realized as part of an extensive urban renewal plan for Agadir supervised by Zevaco and others following a major earthquake in 1960. It is part of the architectural ensemble around the central square.

Cumbernauld Town Centre

This was the first stage of an unbuilt linear megastructure running alongside and over the main road on the ridge at the centre of town. When opened in 1967, it contained offices, a hotel, a shopping mall, a library, recreation and community fac…

Showroom Hille (Furniture Hille)

While the glass façade that functions as the curtain wall does not seem especially brutalist, Banham underlines the refined finishing of the exposed concrete on the inside.

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