Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
In praise of brutalism
A new book constructs a sterling defence of a much-maligned architectural movement, says MICHAL BONCZA
Brutalism 28/3/18
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A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
SOS Brutalism: A Global Survey
Edited by Oliver Elser, Philip Kurz and Peter Cachola Schmal
(Park Books £39)
THE TERM brutalism creates disparaging associations in English — it is diametrically different in meaning from Le Corbusier’s initial usage of “beton brut” meaning “raw concrete.” British critic Reyner Banham coined the glib misnomer in his study of concrete architecture The New Brutalism and it has become a shortcut for heaping scorn.
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