Brutalist architecture

Brutalism is an architectural style of modernism, whose heyday was 1953-1967.

Basics

The term was coined in 1950 by Swedish architect Hans Asplund. It is derived from béton brut, literally, raw concrete ', the French term for exposed concrete. It refers to the visible building materials, in particular concrete form with its unevenness and the prints of the formwork, but also metals, bricks and other materials. Furthermore, the architecture characterize pure geometric body that are not covered with a style similar to other formal solutions of form. In particular, the architecture of Le Corbusier, especially the monastery of Sainte -Marie de la Tourette in Éveux -sur- l'Arbresle Unité d' Habitation and in Marseille, Firminy, Berlin and Nantes were the trend for the brutalism.

As the first brutalist construction applies to school in Hunstanton by Alison and Peter Smithson ( 1949-1954 ). The heyday of brutalism was in the 1960s. He replaced the international modernism of the postwar period and led with his tendencies of a plastic- body-like, design -oriented and characterized by coarse form architecture on the dominant in the 1960s and 1970s building with precast parts.

Brutalism (architectural style) and the British New Brutalism (including architecture and urban theory ) are two different currents. The New Brutalism of the English members of Team 10, Alison and Peter Smithson, has more to do with the theoretical reform of the CIAM ( in architecture and urban ) than brut with the term Concrete.

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Fátimakapelle in Golzheim ( Richartz, 1957)

Input side of the Markuskyrkan in Stockholm ( Sigurd Lewerentz, 1958-1963 )

Input side of St. Paul ( Heidelberg)

Rotaprint building, Berlin - Gesundbrunnen ( Klaus Kirsten, 1958)

Bank of London & South America, Buenos Aires ( Clorindo Testa, 1959)

House Are Lingen, Western Front ( Günter Bock, 1962)

Scarborough College Ontario, Canada ( John Andrews, 1963-1969 )

Church of Reconciliation ( Dachau) ( Helmut Striffler, 1965-1967 )

Part 2 library Philosophicum the University of Regensburg ( 1965 )

Arts Centre, Ruhr- University Bochum ( Helmut Hentrich, 1966)

Habitat 67, Montreal ( Moshe Safdie, 1967)

Parish Church of Saint -Nicolas in Hérémence (Walter conveyor, 1967-1971 )

Settlement Thalmatt 1 in Herrenschwanden, Canton Bern (Atelier 5, 1967-1974 )

Nevigeser Wallfahrtsdom in Velbert ( Gottfried Boehm, 1969)

Evangelical Church of Peace in Monheim am Rhein (1968-1972)

Boston City Hall (Gerhard Kallmann and N. Michael McKinnell, 1969)

Building of the University of Bielefeld ( Klaus Kopke, Peter Kulka et al., 1969)

Geisel Library, University of California, San Diego ( William Pereira, 1970)

Argentine National Library of Buenos Aires (1971-1992)

Complex of the University of Paderborn (1972 )

AfE Tower, Frankfurt am Main ( Staatsbauamt Hesse, 1972-2014 )

Hall Terneuzen ( Jo van den Broek & Bakema, 1973)

Hotel Meliton Porto Carras of the plant, Chalkidiki (Walter Gropius, posthumously 1973)

Robarts Library in Toronto ( Warner, Burns, Toan & Lunde with Mathers & Haldenby, 1973)

Geomatikum the University of Hamburg (1974 )

Czech Embassy in Berlin ( Věra and Vladimír Machonin, 1974)

Bredero -Building, Hanover, (1975 )

Park House in Hanover -Mitte ( 1975)

Maritim hotel in Hanover

Ex -Home Office, London ( Basil Spence, 1976)

High house of Union Investment, Frankfurt (1977 )

Neckar River North building, Mannheim (1975-1982)

Church " Holy Trinity " in Vienna-Mauer (Fritz Wotruba and Fritz Mayr, 1976)

Genex Tower, Belgrade ( Mihajlo Mitrovic, 1980)

Russian Embassy Havana (A. Rotschegow, 1985)

Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow (J. Platonov, 1988)

Baden State Theatre Karlsruhe ( Helmut Bätzner, 1975)