People associate the term Brutalism with concrete and, in the UK, with the welfare state – just one thin slice of the Brutalist canon. Brutalism is not a style. It reveals enduring architectural ideas and interests that have emerged at different times and in different places, prompted by social and political ideals and technological conditions.
Richly illustrated with unique, high-quality photographs, this book explores brutalism through the lens of twelve distinct, occasionally competing, definitions, as a living and evolving entity. Redefining Brutalism offers insight into how these buildings were designed and constructed, their underlying social contexts, and how brutalism triggered various other movements such as high-tech and postmodernism. This book is a lens through which to see the present as much as the past.
Simon Henley is an established architect, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Academy of Urbanism Academician. He is a co-founder of multiple award-winning practice Henley Halebrown, has been shortlisted for the Corus Young Architect of the Year in and, in 2005, exhibited in the 40Under40 UK Architects exhibition at the V&A.
People associate the term Brutalism with concrete and, in the UK, with the welfare state – just one thin slice of the Brutalist canon. Brutalism is not a style. It reveals enduring architectural ideas and interests that have emerged at different times and in different places, prompted by social and political ideals and technological conditions.
Richly illustrated with unique, high-quality photographs, this book explores brutalism through the lens of twelve distinct, occasionally competing, definitions, as a living and evolving entity. Redefining Brutalism offers insight into how these buildings were designed and constructed, their underlying social contexts, and how brutalism triggered various other movements such as high-tech and postmodernism. This book is a lens through which to see the present as much as the past.
Simon Henley is an established architect, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Academy of Urbanism Academician. He is a co-founder of multiple award-winning practice Henley Halebrown, has been shortlisted for the Corus Young Architect of the Year in and, in 2005, exhibited in the 40Under40 UK Architects exhibition at the V&A.
