The book also highlights influential female architects, like Charlotte Perriand, who designed many radical buildings while working for Le Corbusier that the Swiss-French architect took credit for.

A unique photographic essay on mass housing estates erected in the former Eastern Bloc and the people who live in them. Neither is there in him any respect for the things that most people value, such as reputation, wealth, social position, luxury, an easy life, physical beauty, and other similar things.

A 560-page, oversized format book that deserves a place on every design and architecture nerd's coffee table. In spite of some oversights here and there and shortcomings with some of the photographic angles etc this is essential reading for Brutalist fetishists and architecture enthusiasts alike. He aptly cites Brutalism’s characteristics by Reyner Banham in his The New Brutalism article from December 9, 1955, in Architectural Review as, “1, Memorability as an Image; 2, Clear exhibition of Structure; and 3, Valuation of Materials ‘as found. Close cropping and framing also reduces these buildings to a series of abstract forms, removing their scale, monumentality and occasional oppressiveness.

The book includes seven essays by Dr Robin Wilson, details for more than 50 individual buildings, maps and more than 150 black and white photographs by Dr Nigel Green. It also illustrates how, despite vast differences in political ideologies, both East and West Berlin employed remarkably similar approaches to the creation of new urban spaces. She became the first woman to graduate from the Royal Technical University in Berlin in 1916 before immigrating a few years later to the British Mandate of Palestine which would later become Israel.

It constructs a unique photographic record of over 50 buildings across Paris and brings a new interpretation of Brutalism in the French context. Twentieth-century masters included in the book: Marcel Breuer, Lina Bo Bardi, Le Corbusier, Carlo Scarpa, Ernö Goldfinger, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, Oscar Niemeyer, and Paul Rudolph. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report.

If you’re part of the increasingly large ranks of brutalism fans, or interested in late 20th-century architecture and society in general, Brutalist Britain is the book for you. Leading expert and passionate advocate of modern British architecture Elain Harwood gives the best overview of British architecture from 1938 to 1963 – mid-century buildings. Plattenbau, Panelák, Wielka Płyta, Panelky, Panelház or Панельки: Prefabricated panel blocks go by different names around the former Eastern Bloc, but no matter where they were built, their goal was always the same.With over 1000 photos and detailed texts, the book creates a vast timeline of the history and present of brutalist architecture. While museums used to be invariably in city centres, they may now be in remote locations, destinations of cultural pilgrimage. Today, any building made of concrete is questioned whether another material could be used instead, entirely or, at least, in part, as a hybrid structure. The Brutalist aesthetic is enjoying a renaissance ― and this book documents Brutalism as never before. The original photographs and detailed design interrogations in this book look at the way the capital is responding to the ever-pressing need to build with the environment foremost in mind – talking to the London architects, designers and residents who are creating a city that lives, works, plays and produces sustainably.