Year: 1967

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.

Police Station

The station was built with the Lancashire school prefab system named GRID. The system has been used to build stations in Skelmersdale, Morecambe, St. Helens, Preston and Wigan as well. These bulidings differ in the number of levels built, but are otherw…

Central Bank

The Central Bank of India sits on the corner of one of the most important road junctions in Ahmedabad. You are bound to pass this iconic building sooner or later when exploring Ahmedabad from the back of a rickshaw. It is located between the east bank o…

Resurrection of Christ Church (Kirche Christi Auferstehung)

This hall church has an irregular polygonal plan with pyramiding building structures made of brick and concrete. Several building sections grow gradually in the air and end off in sloping roof surfaces. Inside, there is a cave-like atmosphere. The inter…

Richard C. Lee High School

The school is one of the lesser known projects realized as part of the large-scale New Haven “model city” construction program, which spawned so many brutalist buildings.

Behavioral Sciences Building, University of Illinois

Structuralism? Or Brutalism after all? The university building arose as the result of Netsch’s “network theory”. The ground plan seems to be the direct translation of a planning diagram. Inside, there are numerous different types of areas associat…

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