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Raw concrete : the beauty of brutalism /

By: Calder, Barnabas [author.].
Publisher: London : William Heinemann, 2016Description: 405 pages : illustrations, plates ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780434022441; 9780434022441:; 0434022446.Subject(s): Brutalism (Architecture) -- Great Britain | Architecture -- Great Britain -- History | Architecture and society -- Great Britain -- 20th century | ConcreteDDC classification: 724.6 CAL
Contents:
Seduction of Concrete: Hermit's Castle, Achmelvich -- Monuments to the People: Trellick Tower and Balfron Tower -- Banker's Commune: The Barbican -- Establishment's Radical: Professor Sir Leslie Martin, PhD -- Good Ordinary Brutalism: The University of Strathclyde Architecture Building and the Newbery Tower -- Concrete Violin: The National Theatre.
Summary: Béton brut or 'raw concrete' was a term coined by Le Corbusier and appropriated by two young British architects in the 1950s to describe a new kind of building: austere, unadorned, monolithic, confrontational and constructed almost entirely in concrete. This book provides a history of the heavy-concrete architecture of post-war Britain, as well as a personal and illuminating guide to eight pivotal Brutalist buildings.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-381) and index.

One. Seduction of Concrete: Hermit's Castle, Achmelvich -- Two. Monuments to the People: Trellick Tower and Balfron Tower -- Three. Banker's Commune: The Barbican -- Four. Five. Establishment's Radical: Professor Sir Leslie Martin, PhD -- Six. Seven. Good Ordinary Brutalism: The University of Strathclyde Architecture Building and the Newbery Tower -- Eight. Concrete Violin: The National Theatre.

Béton brut or 'raw concrete' was a term coined by Le Corbusier and appropriated by two young British architects in the 1950s to describe a new kind of building: austere, unadorned, monolithic, confrontational and constructed almost entirely in concrete. This book provides a history of the heavy-concrete architecture of post-war Britain, as well as a personal and illuminating guide to eight pivotal Brutalist buildings.

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