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Page 1: marcel breuer: design and architecture - Home of the ...nationalbuildingmuseum.net/pdf/PubProg_Brutalism_SusanPiedmontPal... · “The architecture of the North is rude and wild...it

Brutalismthe architecture

we love to hate

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Unite d’Habitation

Le Corbusier

Marseilles

1947-52

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John Ruskin, 1819-1900 Le Corbusier, 1887-1965

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“The architecture of the North is rude and wild...it is in this

very character that it deserves our profoundest reverence.”

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Beton brut + Reyner Banham = “Brutalism”

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“...decided to recognise that concrete starts life as a

messy soup of suspended dusts, grits and

slumpy aggregate, mixed and poured under

conditions subject to the vagaries of weather and

human fallibility, and left to harden in formwork

whose carpentry rarely (in France) attained the level of

precision required in the construction of a garden fence.”

Banham

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Barbican Estates, London

Chamberlin, Powell and Bon

1965-76

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Urban Brutalism

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Brutal Urbanism

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urban indifference syndrome

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HUD plaza landscape

Martha Scwartz

1998

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“At the present point in architectural history...one might say

that no other material has the potential for such complete

and convincing fusion between structure,

enclosure, and surface; between architecture and

detail; between the minute great form and the great

small particle.”

Breuer

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Architectural Record, April 1966

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“...the skin of the building—has again requested new answers to its problems…”

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“Massive plasticity and coarse surfaces”

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“Massive plasticity and coarse surfaces”

Expressed structure

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“Massive plasticity and coarse surfaces”

Expressed structure

“Fusion of structure, enclosure, surface”

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“Massive plasticity and coarse surfaces”

Expressed structure

“Fusion of structure, enclosure, surface”

Monolithic material

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“Massive plasticity and coarse surfaces”

Expressed structure

“Fusion of structure, enclosure, surface”

Monolithic material

Texture, rather than ornament

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Contextual Brutalism

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• Gets a plaque

• Restored

• Saved in the nick of time

• Demolished

• Benignly neglected

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2010

2020

Mid-Century Modern Architecture Index

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Brutalismthe architecture

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