Archives: Brutalisms

Arlington Temple

A church above a gas station, rented out by the congregation. Special thanks to Chris Livett

Johnson Wax Office Building and Factory

In the 1960s the American firm Johnson Wax, producer of household cleaning supplies, decided to base its first European branch in the town of Mijdrecht in the Netherlands. Dutch architect Huig Maaskant was asked to provide an ‘unusual design’. Maask…

Student Housing

The complex provides affordable student housing in three high-rises plus interconnecting low-rises. The apartments consist of three floors at split-levels with the entrance being to the middle one.

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St. Maximilian Kolbe

The church is built from concrete and yellow brick. Circulation, floorlayout and elevations are affected by its spiral form. The dynamically uprising expression is underlined by the tower’s likewise ascending joints which are, at the same time, th…

Combustion Engineering Corporation Headquarters

In the spring of 1970 the design development planning began for this 60,000 s.f., 5.5 million dollar project. By summer footings were being prepared and by the fall of 1971 the project was substatially complete. The building is located on a suburban sit…

Centro de Exposições do Centro Administrativo da Bahia

In the case of this exhibition center, the design of a suspension bridge is transposed onto a building. An exhibition room and a theater are housed in the opposite ends. Lift and stairs are accommodated in the pillars. There is no inherent need for the …

Row Houses “Flamatt 1”

The building is located in a rural setting next to two creeks. The south-facing reinforced concrete structure rests on columns and comprises six bays of similar size. The two western apartments have a different floor plan including a studio. The ones at…

Stadhuis Terneuzen

Located on the dike in this port town, the town hall, which the locals refer to as a “Battleship”, is meant to emulate the notion of a ship’s bridge. The storeys each center on the core, revolving around it, set off by half a level in each instance.

Goetheanum

The building is usually classified as 1920s Expressionism. That said, with its sculptural use of cast in place exposed concrete could it not be termed proto-brutalist?

St. Christophorus

The cubic volume encloses the central sanctuary, which boasts walls structured in a manner that abstracts from traditional approaches.

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