1st Edition

Brutalism Resurgent

Edited By Julia Gatley, Stuart King Copyright 2016
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

Brutalism had its origins in béton brut – concrete in the raw – and thus in the post-war work of Le Corbusier. The British architects Alison and Peter Smithson used the term "New Brutalism" from 1953, claiming that if their house in Soho had been built, "it would have been the first exponent of the ‘New Brutalism’ in England". Reyner Banham famously gave the movement a series of... Read more

1. Introduction
Julia Gatley and Stuart King

2. Brutalism, Metabolism and its American Parallel Encounters in Skopje and in the Architecture of Georgi Konstantinovski
Mirjana Lozanovska

3. Bringing It All Home: Robin Boyd and Australia’s Embrace of Brutalism, 1955–71
Philip Goad

4. Finding Brutalism in the Architecture of John Andrews
Paul Walker and Antony Moulis

5. Aesthetics as a Practical Ethic Situating the Brutalist Architecture of the Sirius
Apartments, 1975–80
Russell Rodrigo

6. "Group-cum-Brutalism"? Highgate Spinney, London, 1964–66
Julia Gatley

Biography

Julia Gatley is Head of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has written widely on twentieth-century New Zealand architecture, particularly modernism, and is Chair of DOCOMOMO New Zealand.

Stuart King is Programme Director (Architecture) in the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He writes on Australian architecture, and represents interests in heritage and conservation on the Tasmanian Heritage Council.