The New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic

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The New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic

The New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic

Name: The New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic
ISBN: 9780851394602

Reyner Banham

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The book began as an essay in 1955 that Banham refined and expanded over the following 11 years, as his observations regarding the coalescence of the New Brutalist style took shape. Banham’s analysis begins with a political-historical discussion regarding the origins of the term “Brutalism.” He also chronicles the style’s historical underpinnings, chalking up the movement’s origins to a confluence between Nikita Khrushchev’s Soviet building program, Le Corbusier’s Unite d’Habitation, Mies van der Rohe’s Illinois Institute of Technology building, and Alison and Peter Smithson’s Secondary School complex. The remaining four-fifths of the book is dedicated to chronicling New Brutalism’s manifestations in the built environment while discussing the political, philosophical, and tectonic underpinnings of the featured structures.

Categories:

Arts - Architecture

Year:

1966

Publisher:

Architectural Press

Language:

english

Pages:

101

ISBN 10:

0851394604