The complex is a great example for the symbolic power of Brutalism. Opening up only toward the courtyard, the church’s monolithic façade appears like a mountain range from the outside. The clustered roof structure gets lower towards the courtyard…
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San Giovanni Battista (Chiesa dell´Autostrada del Sole)
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St. Francis de Sales
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Carpenter Center, Harvard University
A late piece by Le Corbusier. Here one could ask whether there is any substantial aesthetic or qualitative difference to the other brutalist university builds of the time, or whether Le Corbusier should not simply be viewed alongside the mass of compara…
Teatro Teresa Carreño
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Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno
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Jonah Church (Jonakirche)
The small church is designed for only 110 seats. Striffler’s design is reminiscent of a tent structure rendered in originally exposed concrete. The effect is achieved through the floor plan and the steeply gabled roof. Next to the church is a rectangu…
Triangle Housing
With its triangular shapes the complex structure is known as „étoiles d´Ivry-sur-Seine” (stars of Ivry-sur-Seine). Being vocal communists, the architects tried to address people’s social needs and complex relationships. To achieve this, the proj…
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 …
Deutsches Rotes Kreuz, Retirement Home and Emergency Ambulance
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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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Theological College
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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.
Santuario della Madonna delle Lacrime
The projecting niches contain several altars.
Seidler House
Harry Seidler worked together with Marcel Breuer in New York for some time. Despite being located in an established suburb less than 15km north of Sydney, the Seidler House is hidden in a steep valley ensuring privacy and seclusion. It features split le…
Architekturfakultät, Campus Lichtwiese, TU Darmstadt
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