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Katharinen High School

The polygonal building is located at the edge of the historic city center of Ingolstadt. With its Brutalist design language it complements the Stadttheater, designed by Hämer a few years before, aesthetically as well as conceptually.

Terrassenhaussiedlung

The Terassenhaussiedlung was a participative project: future residents were involved in the planning process. It consists of 522 flats in four blocks with 24 different typologies (stepped, maisonettes, ateliers, attics…). Every flat has a private ou…

Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum

With its vivid monumentality the museum appears like a UFO in its surrounding cityscape. Supposedly the Smithsonian pointed out to Bunshaft that the building would only be appropriate as a museum of modern art if it contrasted its surroundings sharply. …

First Unitarian Church

As one of the most prolific mid-century architects, Louis Kahn is usually not categorized as Brutalist. However many facets of his style, especially his love for exposing the building’s structure and building materials fit squarely into Brutalist conc…

Azuma House

This early Ando project describes a path away from brutalism toward a smooth, minimalist treatment of exposed concrete, something that was to become especially noticeable in architecture as of the 1990s that left the concrete visible. Compared to béton…

House of Soviets, Tula

True to its representative purpose the House of Soviets monumentally rises behind the cities Lenin memorial. Using concrete and glass, Classical monumentality is being rendered in a Brutalist way, reviving the then already obsolete era of Stalinist Sovi…

Creina Hotel

For this hotel, Ravnikar plays with sculptural contrasts. The massive cantilevered structural elements rendered in exposed concrete are evocative of the machine aesthetics of Brutalist megastructures. On the other hand the detailed decorative treatment …

Orphanage

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Kagawa Prefectural Office

This project marked a turn in Japanese post-War architecture in terms of the materials used and the overall direction: The imported International Style is eschewed in favor of a return to the Japanese wood-building tradition, whereby this is executed co…

URA House

With its four pillars centered on the sides instead of the corners, the building pre-empts the structure of Kikutake’s far more famous Sky House by two years. Direct next to it stands an almost identical, albeit later copy of this private house in the…

City Hall

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