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Brutalist architecture 1
Brutalist architecture
Boston City Hall, part of Government Center, Boston, Massachusetts
(Gerhardt Kallmann and N. Michael McKinnell, 1969). The structure illustrates
typical (but not necessary) Brutalist characteristics such as top-heavy massing, the
use of slender base supports, and the sculptural use of raw concrete.
Brutalist architecture is a style of
architecture which flourished from the
1950s to the mid 1970s, spawned from the
modernist architectural movement.
The term "brutalism"
Trellick Tower, London, 1966-1972, designed by
Ernő Goldfinger. It is Grade II* listed.
The British architects Alison and Peter Smithson coined the term in
1953, from the French béton brut, or "raw concrete", a phrase used by
Le Corbusier to describe the poured board-marked concrete with which
he constructed many of his post-World War II buildings. The term
gained wide currency when the British architectural critic Reyner
Banham used it in the title of his 1966 book, The New Brutalism: Ethic
or Aesthetic?, to characterize a somewhat recently established cluster
of architectural approaches, particularly in Europe.
[1]
The architectural style known as Brutalism and the architectural and
urban theory known as New Brutalism may be regarded as two
different movements, although the terms are often used
interchangeably. The New Brutalism of the British members of Team
10, Alison and Peter Smithson, is more related to the theoretical reform
of the CIAM (in architecture and urbanism) than to "béton brut".
Reyner Banham formulated this difference in the title of his book: "The
New Brutalism - Ethic or Aesthetic?"
Brutalist architecture 2
The Interior of the Phillips Exeter Academy
Library, 1965-1971, by Louis Kahn.
The building of the National bank of Macedonia.
Many stations of the Washington Metro system
display Brutalist characteristics
Brutalist architecture 3
The Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban (National Assembly
Building of Bangladesh), 1961-1981, by Louis
Kahn.
The Habitat 67 in Montréal, Québec, Canada
Characteristics
J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C.
Brutalist buildings usually are formed with striking repetitive angular
geometries, and, where concrete is used, often revealing the texture of
the wooden forms used for the in-situ casting. Although concrete is the
material most widely associated with Brutalist architecture, not all
Brutalist buildings are formed from concrete. Instead, a building may
achieve its Brutalist quality through a rough, blocky appearance, and
the expression of its structural materials, forms, and (in some cases)
services on its exterior. For example, many of Alison and Peter
Smithson's private houses are built from brick. Brutalist building
materials also include brick, glass, steel, rough-hewn stone, and gabion
(also known as trapion). Conversely, not all buildings exhibiting an exposed concrete exterior can be considered
Brutalist, and may belong to one of a range of architectural styles including Constructivism, International Style,
Expressionism, Postmodernism, and Deconstructivism.
Another common theme in Brutalist designs is the exposure of the building's functions—ranging from their structure
and services to their human use—in the exterior of the building. In the Boston City Hall (illustration right), designed
in 1962, the strikingly different and projected portions of the building indicate the special nature of the
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The University of California, San Diego's Geisel
Library is one of the most famous examples of
Brutalist architecture, and has been featured in a
number of science fiction movies.
rooms behind those walls, such as the mayor's office or the city council
chambers. From another perspective, the design of the Hunstanton
School included placing the facility's water tank, normally a hidden
service feature, in a prominent, visible tower.
Brutalism as an architectural philosophy, rather than a style, was often
also associated with a socialist utopian ideology, which tended to be
supported by its designers, especially Alison and Peter Smithson, near
the height of the style. Critics argue that this abstract nature of
Brutalism makes the style unfriendly and uncommunicative, instead of
being integrating and protective, as its proponents intended. Brutalism
also is criticised as disregarding the social, historic, and architectural
environment of its surroundings, making the introduction of such
structures in existing developed areas appear starkly out of place and
alien. The failure of positive communities to form early on in some Brutalist structures, possibly due to the larger
processes of urban decay that set in after World War II (especially in the United Kingdom), led to the combined
unpopularity of both the ideology and the architectural style.
History
The best known early Brutalist architecture is the work of the Swiss architect Le Corbusier, in particular his Unité
d'Habitation (1952) and the 1953 Secretariat Building in Chandigarh, India.
Park Hill (detail), Sheffield. Lynn, Smith 1961
Brutalism gained considerable momentum in the United Kingdom
during the mid twentieth century, as economically depressed (and
World War II-ravaged) communities sought inexpensive construction
and design methods for low-cost housing, shopping centres, and
government buildings. Nonetheless, many architects chose the Brutalist
style even when they had large budgets, as they appreciated the
'honesty', the sculptural qualities, and perhaps, the uncompromising,
anti-bourgeois, nature of the style.
Combined with the socially progressive intentions behind Brutalist
streets in the sky housings such as Corbusier's Unité, Brutalism was
promoted as a positive option for forward-moving, modern urban
housing. In practice, however, many of the buildings built in this style lacked many of the community-serving
features of Corbusier's vision, and instead, developed into claustrophobic, crime-ridden tenements. Robin Hood
Gardens is a particularly notorious example, although the worst of its problems have been overcome in recent years.
Some such buildings took decades to develop into positive communities. The rough coolness of concrete lost its
appeal under a damp and gray northern sky, and its fortress-like material, touted as vandal-proof, soon proved
vulnerable to spray-can graffiti.
Figures
In the United Kingdom, Architects associated with the Brutalist style include Ernő Goldfinger, wife-and-husband
pairing Alison and Peter Smithson, and, to a lesser extent perhaps, Sir Denys Lasdun. In Australia, three examples of
the Brutalist style described as the country's finest are Robin Gibson's Queensland Art Gallery, Ken Woolley's Fisher
Library at the University of Sydney (his State Office Block is another) and the High Court of Australia by Colin
Madigan in Canberra.
[2]
John Andrews's government and institutional structures in Australia also exhibit the style. In
Asia there are government buildings by Louis Kahn. Paul Rudolph and Ralph Rapson, from the United States are
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both noted Brutalists. Walter Netsch is known for his Brutalist academic buildings (see above). Marcel Breuer was
known for his "soft" approach to the style, often using curves rather than corners. Clorindo Testa in Argentina
created the Bank of London and South America, one of the best examples of the fifties. More recent Modernists such
as I.M. Pei and Tadao Ando also have designed notable Brutalist works. In Brazil, the style is associated with the
Paulista School and is evident in the works of Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha
(2006). In the Philippines, Leandro Locsin designed the massive brutalist structures, the Cultural Center of the
Philippines and the Philippine International Convention Center. In New Zealand, Sir Miles Warren and his practice
Warren & Mahoney led the development of the so-called "Christchuch School" of architecture, which fused Brutalist
architectural style with Scandinavian and Japanese values of straightforwardness. Warren's buildings have had a
significant effect on New Zealand's public architecture.
On university campuses
The Roger Stevens Building at the University of
Leeds is the centre piece to a large complex of
Brutalist buildings connected by skyways.
In the late 1960s, many campuses in North America were undergoing
expansions and, as a result, there are a significant number of Brutalist
buildings at American and Canadian universities, beginning with Paul
Rudolph's 1958 Yale Art and Architecture Building. Rudolph's design
for the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is an example of an
entire campus designed from scratch in the Brutalist style. Likewise,
architect Walter Netsch designed the entire University of
Illinois-Chicago Circle Campus (now the East Campus of the
University of Illinois at Chicago) under a single, unified brutalist
design.
[3]
The original "inner ring" of buildings at the University of
California, Irvine was designed by a team of architects led by William
Pereira in what he called a "California Brutalist" style.
[4]
Examples outside the USA include McLennan Library, Burnside Hall and the Stephen Leacock building at McGill
University in Montreal; much of the Belfield Campus of University College Dublin; the Academic Quadrangle and
WAC Bennett Library at Simon Fraser University; the John Andrews Building of the University of Toronto
Scarborough, the William G. Davis Building of University of Toronto Mississauga, and Robarts Library at the
University of Toronto in Toronto; significant parts of York University in Toronto; the University of British
Columbia in Vancouver; the Aula of Delft University in the Netherlands; Rand Afrikaans University in
Johannesburg; and Tunku Chancellor Hall in University of Malaya, Malaysia
[5]
. In Australia, Macquarie, Flinders,
and Curtin Universities. In Macedonia, the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. In New Zealand the
University of Canterbury and parts of the University of Auckland City Campus. In the United Kingdom, the Charles
Wilson Building of the University of Leicester, Harvey Court, for Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and
Churchill College, Cambridge (1962-8) and Dunelm House, University of Durham (1965), the University of York
(1963) are all notable examples alongside much of the University of Leeds. In Geneva Switzerland, the Uni Dufour
building of the University of Geneva is located very close to the center of Geneva, next to the Opera House and
Place Neuve.
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University of Toronto's Robarts
Library in downtown Toronto,
Ontario, Canada.
Walter Netsch designed the East
Campus of the University of
Illinois at Chicago
Wean Hall, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh.
The Aula of Delft University in
the Netherlands.
Posvar Hall at the
University of
Pittsburgh
The Civic Offices,
Wood Quay, Dublin
The Barco Law Building at the
University of Pittsburgh School
of Law
Ss. Cyril and Methodius
University of Skopje
University of
Pittsburgh
School of
Information
Sciences
building.
The Mathematics and
Computer Building at the
University of Waterloo in
Waterloo, Ontario
D.B. Weldon Library at the
University of Western Ontario
University of
Massachusetts Dartmouth
Campus Center, as
designed by Paul Rudolph
The Malcom
Moos Health
Sciences Tower
at the University
of Minnesota
Twin Cities
campus.
The Student Union building at
Queens College.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's
Folsom Library
The Coventry School of Art and
Design's Graham Sutherland
Building.
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Birmingham Central Library
Building, Birmingham, England.
Darwin College at the University
of Kent
The John Andrews Building of
the University of Toronto
Scarborough
Criticism and reception
The proposed demolition of the Third Church of
Christ, Scientist in Washington, D.C. has resulted
in court battles between historic preservationists
and church members.
The building of RIA Novosti, former press-center
of 1980 Summer Olympics (Moscow, USSR),
1979
Brutalism has some severe critics, including Charles, Prince of Wales.
His speeches and writings on architecture have excoriated Brutalism,
calling many of the structures "piles of concrete". "You have to give
this much to the Luftwaffe", said Prince Charles at the Corporation of
London Planning and Communication Committee's annual dinner at
Mansion House in December 1987. "When it knocked down our
buildings, it didn't replace them with anything more offensive than
rubble."
[6]
Much of the criticism comes not only from the designs of
the buildings, but also from the fact that concrete façades do not age
well in damp, cloudy maritime climates such as those of northwestern
Europe. In these climates, the concrete becomes streaked with water
stains and sometimes with moss and lichens, and rust leaches from the
steel reinforcing bars.
At the University of Oregon campus, outrage and vocal distaste for
Brutalism led, in part, to the hiring of Christopher Alexander and the
initiation of The Oregon Experiment in the late 1970s. This led to the
development of Alexander's A Pattern Language and A Timeless Way
of Building.
In recent years, the bad memories of under-served Brutalist community
structures have led to their demolition in communities eager to make
way for newer, more traditionally-oriented community structures.
Despite a nascent modernist appreciation movement, and the identified
success that some of this style's offspring have had, many others have
been or are slated to be demolished.
Theodore Dalrymple, a British author, physican, and political commentator, has written for City Journal that
brutalist structures represent an artifact of European philosophical totalitarianism, a "spiritual, intellectual, and moral
deformity." He called the buildings "cold-hearted", "inhuman", "hideous", and "monstrous". He stated that the
reinforced concrete "does not age gracefully but instead crumbles, stains, and decays", which makes alternative
building styles superior.
[7]
Matthew Yglesias, a commentator at Think Progress, has argued that brutalist structures in Boston such as its City
Hall "sort of kill pleasant urbanist neighborhoods".
[8]
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Resurgence
The Leeds International Pool, built in 1967,
designed by disgraced British architect John
Poulson. Demolished 2009.
Although the Brutalist movement was largely dead by the mid-1980s,
having largely given way to Structural Expressionism and
Deconstructivism, it has experienced an updating of sorts in recent
years. Many of the rougher aspects of the style have been softened in
newer buildings, with concrete façades often being sandblasted to
create a stone-like surface, covered in stucco, or composed of
patterned, pre-cast elements. Modernist architects taking this approach
in recent projects include Steven Ehrlich, Ricardo Legorreta, and Gin
Wong. The firm of Victor Gruen and Associates has revamped the
style for the many courthouse buildings it has been contracted to
design. Architects from Latin America have been reviving the style on
a smaller scale in recent years. Brutalism has recently experienced a
major revival in Israel, due to the perceived sense of strength and security the style creates. With the development of
LiTraCon—a form of translucent concrete—a new Brutalist movement may be on the horizon.
The Regenstein Library at the University of
Chicago, designed in the late 1960s by Walter
Netsch
Even in Britain, where the style was most prevalent (and later the most
reviled), a number of buildings recently (as of 2006) have appeared in
an updated Brutalist style, including deRijke Marsh Morgan's 1
Centaur Street in Lambeth, London, and Elder & Cannon's The Icon in
Glasgow in Scotland. The 2005 Stirling Prize shortlist contained a
number of buildings (most notably Zaha Hadid's BMW Central
Building and the eventual winner, Enric Miralles' Scottish Parliament
Building) featuring significant amounts of exposed concrete,
something that would have been regarded as aesthetically unacceptable
when the prize was inaugurated nine years previously.
There also has been a reappraisal of first-generation Brutalist
architecture and a growing appreciation that dislike of the buildings
often stems from poor maintenance and social problems resulting from poor management, rather than the designs
themselves. In 2005 the British television channel Channel 4 ran a documentary, I Love Carbuncles, which placed
the U.K.'s Brutalist legacy in a more positive light. Some Brutalist buildings have been granted listed status as
historic and others, such as Gillespie, Kidd and Coia's St. Peter's Seminary, named by Prospect magazine's survey of
architects as Scotland's greatest post-war building, have been the subject of conservation campaigns. The Twentieth
Century Society has campaigned against the demolition of buildings such as the Tricorn Centre and Trinity Centre
Multi-Storey Car Park.
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Notes
[1] Golan 2003, p.3 (http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0422/is_2_85/ai_104208984/pg_3).
[2] Farrelly, Elizabeth (2010-10-09). "Watch this space - Brutalism meets beauty in the National Gallery's new wing". The Sydney Morning
Herald"Spectrum" section. pp. 16–17.
[3] Historic Netsch Campus at UIC (http://www.uic.edu/depts/oaa/walkingtour/Netsch_Walking_Tour_03.pdf) Retrieved December 31,
2010
[4] "Anteater Chronicles: William Pereria, Architect" (http://www.lib.uci.edu/ucihistory/index.php?page=architecture&function=pereira).
University of California, Irvine Library. 2006. .
[5] http://www.um.edu.my/mainpage.php?um=bW9kdWxlPU1ha2x1bWF0JmthdGVnb3JpPTUxJmlkPTI1NSZwYXBhcj0x
[6] Glancey, Jonathan (2004-05-17). "Life after carbuncles" (http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2004/may/17/architecture.
regeneration). The Guardian (London). . Retrieved 2010-04-27.
[7] Theodore Dalrymple (Autumn 2009). "The Architect as Totalitarian" (http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_4_otbie-le-corbusier.html).
City Journal. . Retrieved January 4, 2010.
[8] Matthew Yglesias (October 11, 2009). "Ugly Buildings" (http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/10/ugly-buildings.php). Think
Progress. . Retrieved January 4, 2010.
References
• Romy Golan, Historian of the Immediate Future: Reyner Banham - Book Review (http://www.findarticles.com/
p/articles/mi_m0422/is_2_85/ai_104208984/pg_1), The Art Bulletin, June 2003. Accessed online at
FindArticles 23 October 2006.
External links
• Reflections on Brutalist Architecture in East London (http://thethirdestate.net/2009/05/brutal-but-true)
• Ontario Architecture: Brutalism (http://www.ontarioarchitecture.com/Brutalist.htm)
• From Here to Modernity (http://www.open2.net/modernity/inner_frameset.htm) includes many Brutalist
examples
• Tate Gallery Glossary entry for "Brutalism" (http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition.
jsp?entryId=58)
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Brutalist architecture

  • 1. Brutalist architecture 1 Brutalist architecture Boston City Hall, part of Government Center, Boston, Massachusetts (Gerhardt Kallmann and N. Michael McKinnell, 1969). The structure illustrates typical (but not necessary) Brutalist characteristics such as top-heavy massing, the use of slender base supports, and the sculptural use of raw concrete. Brutalist architecture is a style of architecture which flourished from the 1950s to the mid 1970s, spawned from the modernist architectural movement. The term "brutalism" Trellick Tower, London, 1966-1972, designed by Ernő Goldfinger. It is Grade II* listed. The British architects Alison and Peter Smithson coined the term in 1953, from the French béton brut, or "raw concrete", a phrase used by Le Corbusier to describe the poured board-marked concrete with which he constructed many of his post-World War II buildings. The term gained wide currency when the British architectural critic Reyner Banham used it in the title of his 1966 book, The New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic?, to characterize a somewhat recently established cluster of architectural approaches, particularly in Europe. [1] The architectural style known as Brutalism and the architectural and urban theory known as New Brutalism may be regarded as two different movements, although the terms are often used interchangeably. The New Brutalism of the British members of Team 10, Alison and Peter Smithson, is more related to the theoretical reform of the CIAM (in architecture and urbanism) than to "béton brut". Reyner Banham formulated this difference in the title of his book: "The New Brutalism - Ethic or Aesthetic?"
  • 2. Brutalist architecture 2 The Interior of the Phillips Exeter Academy Library, 1965-1971, by Louis Kahn. The building of the National bank of Macedonia. Many stations of the Washington Metro system display Brutalist characteristics
  • 3. Brutalist architecture 3 The Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban (National Assembly Building of Bangladesh), 1961-1981, by Louis Kahn. The Habitat 67 in Montréal, Québec, Canada Characteristics J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C. Brutalist buildings usually are formed with striking repetitive angular geometries, and, where concrete is used, often revealing the texture of the wooden forms used for the in-situ casting. Although concrete is the material most widely associated with Brutalist architecture, not all Brutalist buildings are formed from concrete. Instead, a building may achieve its Brutalist quality through a rough, blocky appearance, and the expression of its structural materials, forms, and (in some cases) services on its exterior. For example, many of Alison and Peter Smithson's private houses are built from brick. Brutalist building materials also include brick, glass, steel, rough-hewn stone, and gabion (also known as trapion). Conversely, not all buildings exhibiting an exposed concrete exterior can be considered Brutalist, and may belong to one of a range of architectural styles including Constructivism, International Style, Expressionism, Postmodernism, and Deconstructivism. Another common theme in Brutalist designs is the exposure of the building's functions—ranging from their structure and services to their human use—in the exterior of the building. In the Boston City Hall (illustration right), designed in 1962, the strikingly different and projected portions of the building indicate the special nature of the
  • 4. Brutalist architecture 4 The University of California, San Diego's Geisel Library is one of the most famous examples of Brutalist architecture, and has been featured in a number of science fiction movies. rooms behind those walls, such as the mayor's office or the city council chambers. From another perspective, the design of the Hunstanton School included placing the facility's water tank, normally a hidden service feature, in a prominent, visible tower. Brutalism as an architectural philosophy, rather than a style, was often also associated with a socialist utopian ideology, which tended to be supported by its designers, especially Alison and Peter Smithson, near the height of the style. Critics argue that this abstract nature of Brutalism makes the style unfriendly and uncommunicative, instead of being integrating and protective, as its proponents intended. Brutalism also is criticised as disregarding the social, historic, and architectural environment of its surroundings, making the introduction of such structures in existing developed areas appear starkly out of place and alien. The failure of positive communities to form early on in some Brutalist structures, possibly due to the larger processes of urban decay that set in after World War II (especially in the United Kingdom), led to the combined unpopularity of both the ideology and the architectural style. History The best known early Brutalist architecture is the work of the Swiss architect Le Corbusier, in particular his Unité d'Habitation (1952) and the 1953 Secretariat Building in Chandigarh, India. Park Hill (detail), Sheffield. Lynn, Smith 1961 Brutalism gained considerable momentum in the United Kingdom during the mid twentieth century, as economically depressed (and World War II-ravaged) communities sought inexpensive construction and design methods for low-cost housing, shopping centres, and government buildings. Nonetheless, many architects chose the Brutalist style even when they had large budgets, as they appreciated the 'honesty', the sculptural qualities, and perhaps, the uncompromising, anti-bourgeois, nature of the style. Combined with the socially progressive intentions behind Brutalist streets in the sky housings such as Corbusier's Unité, Brutalism was promoted as a positive option for forward-moving, modern urban housing. In practice, however, many of the buildings built in this style lacked many of the community-serving features of Corbusier's vision, and instead, developed into claustrophobic, crime-ridden tenements. Robin Hood Gardens is a particularly notorious example, although the worst of its problems have been overcome in recent years. Some such buildings took decades to develop into positive communities. The rough coolness of concrete lost its appeal under a damp and gray northern sky, and its fortress-like material, touted as vandal-proof, soon proved vulnerable to spray-can graffiti. Figures In the United Kingdom, Architects associated with the Brutalist style include Ernő Goldfinger, wife-and-husband pairing Alison and Peter Smithson, and, to a lesser extent perhaps, Sir Denys Lasdun. In Australia, three examples of the Brutalist style described as the country's finest are Robin Gibson's Queensland Art Gallery, Ken Woolley's Fisher Library at the University of Sydney (his State Office Block is another) and the High Court of Australia by Colin Madigan in Canberra. [2] John Andrews's government and institutional structures in Australia also exhibit the style. In Asia there are government buildings by Louis Kahn. Paul Rudolph and Ralph Rapson, from the United States are
  • 5. Brutalist architecture 5 both noted Brutalists. Walter Netsch is known for his Brutalist academic buildings (see above). Marcel Breuer was known for his "soft" approach to the style, often using curves rather than corners. Clorindo Testa in Argentina created the Bank of London and South America, one of the best examples of the fifties. More recent Modernists such as I.M. Pei and Tadao Ando also have designed notable Brutalist works. In Brazil, the style is associated with the Paulista School and is evident in the works of Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha (2006). In the Philippines, Leandro Locsin designed the massive brutalist structures, the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the Philippine International Convention Center. In New Zealand, Sir Miles Warren and his practice Warren & Mahoney led the development of the so-called "Christchuch School" of architecture, which fused Brutalist architectural style with Scandinavian and Japanese values of straightforwardness. Warren's buildings have had a significant effect on New Zealand's public architecture. On university campuses The Roger Stevens Building at the University of Leeds is the centre piece to a large complex of Brutalist buildings connected by skyways. In the late 1960s, many campuses in North America were undergoing expansions and, as a result, there are a significant number of Brutalist buildings at American and Canadian universities, beginning with Paul Rudolph's 1958 Yale Art and Architecture Building. Rudolph's design for the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is an example of an entire campus designed from scratch in the Brutalist style. Likewise, architect Walter Netsch designed the entire University of Illinois-Chicago Circle Campus (now the East Campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago) under a single, unified brutalist design. [3] The original "inner ring" of buildings at the University of California, Irvine was designed by a team of architects led by William Pereira in what he called a "California Brutalist" style. [4] Examples outside the USA include McLennan Library, Burnside Hall and the Stephen Leacock building at McGill University in Montreal; much of the Belfield Campus of University College Dublin; the Academic Quadrangle and WAC Bennett Library at Simon Fraser University; the John Andrews Building of the University of Toronto Scarborough, the William G. Davis Building of University of Toronto Mississauga, and Robarts Library at the University of Toronto in Toronto; significant parts of York University in Toronto; the University of British Columbia in Vancouver; the Aula of Delft University in the Netherlands; Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg; and Tunku Chancellor Hall in University of Malaya, Malaysia [5] . In Australia, Macquarie, Flinders, and Curtin Universities. In Macedonia, the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. In New Zealand the University of Canterbury and parts of the University of Auckland City Campus. In the United Kingdom, the Charles Wilson Building of the University of Leicester, Harvey Court, for Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and Churchill College, Cambridge (1962-8) and Dunelm House, University of Durham (1965), the University of York (1963) are all notable examples alongside much of the University of Leeds. In Geneva Switzerland, the Uni Dufour building of the University of Geneva is located very close to the center of Geneva, next to the Opera House and Place Neuve.
  • 6. Brutalist architecture 6 University of Toronto's Robarts Library in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Walter Netsch designed the East Campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago Wean Hall, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. The Aula of Delft University in the Netherlands. Posvar Hall at the University of Pittsburgh The Civic Offices, Wood Quay, Dublin The Barco Law Building at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences building. The Mathematics and Computer Building at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario D.B. Weldon Library at the University of Western Ontario University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Campus Center, as designed by Paul Rudolph The Malcom Moos Health Sciences Tower at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus. The Student Union building at Queens College. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Folsom Library The Coventry School of Art and Design's Graham Sutherland Building.
  • 7. Brutalist architecture 7 Birmingham Central Library Building, Birmingham, England. Darwin College at the University of Kent The John Andrews Building of the University of Toronto Scarborough Criticism and reception The proposed demolition of the Third Church of Christ, Scientist in Washington, D.C. has resulted in court battles between historic preservationists and church members. The building of RIA Novosti, former press-center of 1980 Summer Olympics (Moscow, USSR), 1979 Brutalism has some severe critics, including Charles, Prince of Wales. His speeches and writings on architecture have excoriated Brutalism, calling many of the structures "piles of concrete". "You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe", said Prince Charles at the Corporation of London Planning and Communication Committee's annual dinner at Mansion House in December 1987. "When it knocked down our buildings, it didn't replace them with anything more offensive than rubble." [6] Much of the criticism comes not only from the designs of the buildings, but also from the fact that concrete façades do not age well in damp, cloudy maritime climates such as those of northwestern Europe. In these climates, the concrete becomes streaked with water stains and sometimes with moss and lichens, and rust leaches from the steel reinforcing bars. At the University of Oregon campus, outrage and vocal distaste for Brutalism led, in part, to the hiring of Christopher Alexander and the initiation of The Oregon Experiment in the late 1970s. This led to the development of Alexander's A Pattern Language and A Timeless Way of Building. In recent years, the bad memories of under-served Brutalist community structures have led to their demolition in communities eager to make way for newer, more traditionally-oriented community structures. Despite a nascent modernist appreciation movement, and the identified success that some of this style's offspring have had, many others have been or are slated to be demolished. Theodore Dalrymple, a British author, physican, and political commentator, has written for City Journal that brutalist structures represent an artifact of European philosophical totalitarianism, a "spiritual, intellectual, and moral deformity." He called the buildings "cold-hearted", "inhuman", "hideous", and "monstrous". He stated that the reinforced concrete "does not age gracefully but instead crumbles, stains, and decays", which makes alternative building styles superior. [7] Matthew Yglesias, a commentator at Think Progress, has argued that brutalist structures in Boston such as its City Hall "sort of kill pleasant urbanist neighborhoods". [8]
  • 8. Brutalist architecture 8 Resurgence The Leeds International Pool, built in 1967, designed by disgraced British architect John Poulson. Demolished 2009. Although the Brutalist movement was largely dead by the mid-1980s, having largely given way to Structural Expressionism and Deconstructivism, it has experienced an updating of sorts in recent years. Many of the rougher aspects of the style have been softened in newer buildings, with concrete façades often being sandblasted to create a stone-like surface, covered in stucco, or composed of patterned, pre-cast elements. Modernist architects taking this approach in recent projects include Steven Ehrlich, Ricardo Legorreta, and Gin Wong. The firm of Victor Gruen and Associates has revamped the style for the many courthouse buildings it has been contracted to design. Architects from Latin America have been reviving the style on a smaller scale in recent years. Brutalism has recently experienced a major revival in Israel, due to the perceived sense of strength and security the style creates. With the development of LiTraCon—a form of translucent concrete—a new Brutalist movement may be on the horizon. The Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago, designed in the late 1960s by Walter Netsch Even in Britain, where the style was most prevalent (and later the most reviled), a number of buildings recently (as of 2006) have appeared in an updated Brutalist style, including deRijke Marsh Morgan's 1 Centaur Street in Lambeth, London, and Elder & Cannon's The Icon in Glasgow in Scotland. The 2005 Stirling Prize shortlist contained a number of buildings (most notably Zaha Hadid's BMW Central Building and the eventual winner, Enric Miralles' Scottish Parliament Building) featuring significant amounts of exposed concrete, something that would have been regarded as aesthetically unacceptable when the prize was inaugurated nine years previously. There also has been a reappraisal of first-generation Brutalist architecture and a growing appreciation that dislike of the buildings often stems from poor maintenance and social problems resulting from poor management, rather than the designs themselves. In 2005 the British television channel Channel 4 ran a documentary, I Love Carbuncles, which placed the U.K.'s Brutalist legacy in a more positive light. Some Brutalist buildings have been granted listed status as historic and others, such as Gillespie, Kidd and Coia's St. Peter's Seminary, named by Prospect magazine's survey of architects as Scotland's greatest post-war building, have been the subject of conservation campaigns. The Twentieth Century Society has campaigned against the demolition of buildings such as the Tricorn Centre and Trinity Centre Multi-Storey Car Park.
  • 9. Brutalist architecture 9 Notes [1] Golan 2003, p.3 (http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0422/is_2_85/ai_104208984/pg_3). [2] Farrelly, Elizabeth (2010-10-09). "Watch this space - Brutalism meets beauty in the National Gallery's new wing". The Sydney Morning Herald"Spectrum" section. pp. 16–17. [3] Historic Netsch Campus at UIC (http://www.uic.edu/depts/oaa/walkingtour/Netsch_Walking_Tour_03.pdf) Retrieved December 31, 2010 [4] "Anteater Chronicles: William Pereria, Architect" (http://www.lib.uci.edu/ucihistory/index.php?page=architecture&function=pereira). University of California, Irvine Library. 2006. . [5] http://www.um.edu.my/mainpage.php?um=bW9kdWxlPU1ha2x1bWF0JmthdGVnb3JpPTUxJmlkPTI1NSZwYXBhcj0x [6] Glancey, Jonathan (2004-05-17). "Life after carbuncles" (http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2004/may/17/architecture. regeneration). The Guardian (London). . Retrieved 2010-04-27. [7] Theodore Dalrymple (Autumn 2009). "The Architect as Totalitarian" (http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_4_otbie-le-corbusier.html). City Journal. . Retrieved January 4, 2010. [8] Matthew Yglesias (October 11, 2009). "Ugly Buildings" (http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/10/ugly-buildings.php). Think Progress. . Retrieved January 4, 2010. References • Romy Golan, Historian of the Immediate Future: Reyner Banham - Book Review (http://www.findarticles.com/ p/articles/mi_m0422/is_2_85/ai_104208984/pg_1), The Art Bulletin, June 2003. Accessed online at FindArticles 23 October 2006. External links • Reflections on Brutalist Architecture in East London (http://thethirdestate.net/2009/05/brutal-but-true) • Ontario Architecture: Brutalism (http://www.ontarioarchitecture.com/Brutalist.htm) • From Here to Modernity (http://www.open2.net/modernity/inner_frameset.htm) includes many Brutalist examples • Tate Gallery Glossary entry for "Brutalism" (http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition. jsp?entryId=58)
  • 10. 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