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Brutalismor New BrutalismTerm coined (1953) to describe Le Corbusier's use of monumental, sculptural shapes and raw, unfinished molded concrete, an approach that represented a departure from International Style. New Brutalist architects displayed a willful avoidance of polish and elegance in their buildings, exposing such structural elements as steel beams and precast concrete slabs to convey a stark, austere rectilinearity. See also Louis Kahn, James Stirling. brutalism an austere style of architecture characterized by emphasis on such structural materials as undressed concrete and unconcealed service pipes http://students.open.ac.uk/open2net/modernity/4_15.htm www.skyscrapers.com/re/en/ab/ds/pd/bu/ca/sy/mo/br How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Initially Banham supported the Brutalist architecture of the Smithsons and James Stirling, who pushed given materials and exposed structures to a "bloody-minded" extreme. Kolding's collages (all works 2000), grouped in sequences of four sheets each or pinned as single sheets directly to the wall, combine starkly juxtaposed black-and-white photocopies of details of functionalist and Brutalist architecture with pop references and evocations of the suburban housing of Kolding's childhood and youth in Copenhagen during the '70s and '8os. |
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