Similarities as well as differences are explored and analysed using a series of impressive architectural projects. The book also highlights influential female architects, like Charlotte Perriand, who designed many radical buildings while working for Le Corbusier that the Swiss-French architect took credit for. Once a marginalised and maligned genre, brutalism has burst back onto the design scene, cited as inspiration by a new generation seduced by the authenticity and heroic ambitions of this impressive architecture. Phaidon announce their latest photo-book - a global survey of Brutalist architecture, based around 878 buildings from 798 architects, and ranging across 102 countries.

Atlas of Brutalist Architecture by Phaidon presents hundreds of brutalist masterpieces – existing and demolished – and their designers from different corners of the world. At least one project, a private house, Casa Zicatela, designed by Ludwig Godefroy and built in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2015, is illustrated in six(! Imposing and dramatic, with monolithic concrete exteriors, it forms an enduring part of our post-war urban landscape.Phaidon offers readers new perspectives on their everyday surroundings, encouraging individuals to re–evaluate the built environments. Unfortunately the new theory did not in practice prove quite so easy to carry out satisfactorily as hoped. A playful exploration of the socialist-era architecture erected in the former Polish People’s Republic. Finally, we have SOS Brutalism, a monumental survey of the more esoteric expressions of concrete architecture around the world, with a special focus on those that are threatened by alteration or demolition. Drawn from his extensive investigations into Berlin’s urban landscape, Jesse Simon’s texts and photographs offer a convincing argument for the aesthetic and social value of buildings that were once described as “eyesores.

A series of illustrated paper models portraying the brutalist architecture of Paris from the late 1950s to the 1970s. Brutalist architecture gained popularity in the postwar era of the 1950s and 1960s, which grew out of the early 20th-century modernist movement. From the hand-carved stairs in Greek villages to free-floating catwalks, from the elegant processional steps of Renaissance Italy to Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterly manipulation of form, from the seemingly random placement of Japanese stepping stones to the staircase in Chareau’s Glass House, all provide very difference experiences of stepping from one level to the next, and all affect our experience of that space.The introduction alerts the reader to the fact that they've taken a very inclusive attitude toward what qualifies as "brutalist" which probably made for a more interesting book.

Repeatedly, echoing a statement made by Socrates in Plato 's Apology, he insists that h e i s not like the rest and says that the main advantage he has derived from philosophy is his ability to be in touch with himself (D.On the other hand, given that PHAIDON already published its encyclopedic Atlas of Brutalist Architecture in 2018 with the following reprint edition in 2020, which includes nearly 900 buildings by almost 800 architects, it is understandable that the new book on the same subject would need to have a new angle instead of trying too hard to be all-encompassing. Covering the period between 1950 and 1970, it uses new photography and archive imagery to rally for preservation and recognition, making it a must for lovers of architecture’s more far-flung fringes.