Year: 1965

Engineering Center, University of Colorado

Distancing itself from the more traditionalist structures of the campus, the Engineering Center is unapologetically brutalist with distinct wedge shapes and massive exposed concrete walls. Oddly though the monopitch roofs are conservatively tiled.

Public Safety Building

This Public Safety Building is an example how only a few prefabricated parts can suffice to create an unusually striking, brutalist facade.

University of Zambia

The campus runs along a central axis, which divides the complex into faculties and housing areas. The structure allows cross-wise expansions or lengthwise addition of new institutes or other facilities. Typical for the 1960s is the attempt to separate s…

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