10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NEW BRUTALISM»
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new brutalism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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As Found: The Discovery of the Ordinary ; [British ...
As Found encounters the transdisciplinary relationship between the constructed environment as it is visually perceived and verbally expressed.
Claude Lichtenstein, Thomas Schregenberger, 2001
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Building the Post-war World: Modern Architecture and ...
1 'The New Brutalism', AD, Jan. 1955, p. 1 . 2 In the early 1950s the Smithsons'
knowledge of Japan and Japanese architecture was still limited, they were first to
visit Japan in 1960. See A. and P. Smithson, Architecture without Rhetoric, ...
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A Critic Writes: Essays by Reyner Banham
One cannot begin to study the New Brutalism without realizing how deeply the
New Art-History has bitten into progressive English architectural thought, into
teaching methods, into the common language of communication between
architects ...
Reyner Banham, Mary Banham, 1996
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Concrete: The Vision of a
New Architecture
Reyner Banham, The New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic? (New York: Rein- hold
1966), 16. 117. A technique employed in traditional stone masonry, bush-
hammering (or bouchardage) was used to eliminate the cement film left after the
removal ...
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Reyner Banham: Historian of the Immediate Future
33 However, he acknowledged that this description could also apply to non-
Brutalist buildings, and therefore suggests there was a further key ingredient: "In
the last resort what characterises the New Brutalism in architecture as in painting
is ...
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From Autos to Architecture: Fordism and Architectural ...
Reyner Banham, The New Brutalism (New York: Reinhold, 1966), 11-13; Tafuri
and Dal Co, Modern Architecture, 310-15, 358; Frampton, Modern Architecture,
262-63. 50. Le Corbusier, The Modular (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, ...
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Architecture and Science-fiction Film: Philip K. Dick and ...
It is here, at New Brutalism's “attempt to be objective about reality" through the
Smithsons's House of the Future, that we might effortlessly resume our
interrogation of the home in Total Recall. The implication of New Brutalism's
ethics is clearly ...
David Terrance Fortin, 2011
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Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture
Brutalism (also called New Brutalism), narrowly defined, was the term used to
describe the theory, ideas, and practice of a small number of young architects in
Great Britain from 1950 to 1960. Broadly conceived, Brutalism came to describe
an ...
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A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
What became known as New Brutalism, however, was particularly associated
with British supposed disciples of Le Corbusier, perhaps not unconnected with P.
Smithson's nickname, 'Brutus', whilst also providing an alternative to the 'New ...
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The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
23–9 George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings (exh. cat. by N. K. Anderson,
Washington, DC, N.G.A., 2008) Ross C. Anderson Brutalism New Brutalism, or
simply Brutalism, is a term applied to a range of architecture built between the
late ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NEW BRUTALISM»
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new brutalism is used in the context of the following news items.
Why don't we blow up the Houses of Parliament?
I understand Robin Hood Gardens in Poplar, a multi-storey housing estate built in the 1970s as an example of "New Brutalism" architecture ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jun 15»
Britain's brutalist playgrounds – in pictures
Part of the Park Hill estate, designed by Jack Lynn and Ivor Smith, who were tutored by the Smithsons – the founders of new brutalism. «The Guardian, Jun 15»
Last-ditch bid launched to save
... of the so-called New Brutalism. Based on the concept of "streets in the sky", the estate comprises two concrete slab blocks arranged around a ... «Dezeen, Mar 15»
Hex Cabs: Heavy Metal
While on tour, they came into contact with Knoxville, Tenn., band New Brutalism, and were struck by their commitment to building their own ... «SLUG Magazine, Feb 15»
Ladies Who Launched
Until now, I was unaware that the much-repeated term “New Brutalism” was invented by a woman architect. Alison Smithson used it to describe ... «Wall Street Journal, Jan 15»
Tate Britain celebrates the short but seismic age of New Brutalism
Designed in 1949 by Alison and Peter Smithson and opened in 1954, Hunstanton Secondary Modern School was a radical series of Miesian ... «wallpaper.com, Nov 14»
Towards a new brutalism
Without any introduction, the writer, journalist and film-maker Jonathan Meades sauntered on to the stage at the Barbican last week and told a ... «Building Design, Nov 14»
Spotlight: Peter Smithson
Peter Smithson (18 September 1923 – 3 March 2003), the acclaimed British architect often associated with New Brutalism, would have turned ... «ArchDaily, Sep 14»
Book Review: 'The Language of Houses' by Alison Lurie
After World War II, the modernist movement in European architecture gave us "the New Brutalism," with its "heavy, blocklike construction and ... «Wall Street Journal, Aug 14»
Dark arts: a new museum dedicated to Pierre Soulages echoes the …
'New Brutalism' sums up some of the punch and swagger of the museum dedicated to Pierre Soulages that recently opened in his hometown of ... «wallpaper.com, Aug 14»
