JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
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The Atlas of Brutalism
Revelatory images of a maligned architectural movement, whose democratic intent has transformed the public space
Rozzol Melara, Carlo Celli, Trieste, Italy 1982
RON JACOBS welcomes the translation into English of an angry cry from the place they call the periphery
GUILLERMO THOMAS recommends a useful book aimed at informing activists with local examples of solidarity in action around the world
HENRY BELL is provoked by a book that looks toward, but does not fully explore the question of who gets to imagine the shapes of cities to come
MATTHEW HAWKINS surveys the upcoming programme of contemporary dance in Glasgow, and picks some highlights
‘Chance encounters are what keep us going,’ says novelist Haruki Murakami. In Amy, a chance encounter gives fresh perspective to memories of angst, hedonism and a charismatic teenage rebel.
“BRUTALISM” — the greatest misnomer in cultural vocabulary today — is in fact quite the opposite. An architecture of care, it embraces humanism, solidarity and unbridled imagination and by definition is participatory, aspirational and inherently democratic.
It hasn’t always succeeded aesthetically but as an endeavour it has had universal appeal for decades.
When Margaret Thatcher — a stalking horse for the characteristic political brutality and myopia of neoliberalism — announced that “there’s no such thing as society,” it was the end of the line for the architecture of municipal housing intended to address the needs of ordinary people in housing, healthcare, leisure or public administration.
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