Raw Concrete: The Beauty Of Brutalism

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Raw Concrete: The Beauty Of Brutalism

  • Hardcover: 401 pages
  • Publisher: Random House (21 April 2016)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9780434022441
  • Product Dimensions: 24 x 3.2 x 16 cm

Raw Concrete overturns the perception of Brutalist buildings as the penny-pinching, utilitarian products of dutiful social concern. Instead it looks a little closer, uncovering the luxuriously skilled craft and daring engineering with which the best buildings of the 1960s came into being: magnificent architectural visions serving clients rich and poor, radical and conservative.

Beginning in a tiny hermitage on the remote north Scottish coast, and ending up backstage at the National Theatre, Raw Concrete embarks on a wide-ranging journey through Britain over the past sixty years, stopping to examine how eight extraordinary buildings were made – from commission to construction – why they have been so vilified, and why they are beginning to be loved.

In it, Barnabas Calder puts forward a powerful case: Brutalism is the best architecture there has ever been, and perhaps the best there ever will be.

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