Strange, Angry Objects
Owen Hatherley: The Brutalist Decades, 17 November 2016
A3: Threads and Connections
by Peter Ahrends.
Right Angle, 128 pp., £18, December 2015,978 0 9532848 9 4 Show More
by Peter Ahrends.
Right Angle, 128 pp., £18, December 2015,
Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism
by Barnabas Calder.
Heinemann, 416 pp., £25, April 2016,978 0 434 02244 1 Show More
by Barnabas Calder.
Heinemann, 416 pp., £25, April 2016,
Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture 1945-75
by Elain Harwood.
Yale, 512 pp., £60, September 2015,978 0 300 20446 9 Show More
by Elain Harwood.
Yale, 512 pp., £60, September 2015,
Concrete Concept: Brutalist Buildings around the World
by Christopher Beanland.
Frances Lincoln, 192 pp., £18, February 2016,978 0 7112 3764 3 Show More
by Christopher Beanland.
Frances Lincoln, 192 pp., £18, February 2016,
This Brutal World
by Peter Chadwick.
Phaidon, 224 pp., £29.95, April 2016,978 0 7148 7108 0 Show More
by Peter Chadwick.
Phaidon, 224 pp., £29.95, April 2016,
Modern Forms: A Subjective Atlas of 20th-Century Architecture
by Nicolas Grospierre.
Prestel, 224 pp., £29.99, February 2016,978 3 7913 8229 6 Show More
by Nicolas Grospierre.
Prestel, 224 pp., £29.99, February 2016,
Modernist Estates: The Buildings and the People Who Live in Them
by Stefi Orazi.
Frances Lincoln, 192 pp., £25, September 2015,978 0 7112 3675 2 Show More
by Stefi Orazi.
Frances Lincoln, 192 pp., £25, September 2015,
Architecture an Inspiration
by Ivor Smith.
Troubador, 224 pp., £24.95, November 2014,978 1 78462 069 1 Show More
by Ivor Smith.
Troubador, 224 pp., £24.95, November 2014,
“... For us
,’ Steffen Ahrends told his son Peter, who was born in Berlin in 1933, ‘the history of architecture started with the Soviet 1917 revolution.’ It wasn’t entirely a joke. For many designers in the Weimar Republic, and for subsequent generations of modernist hardliners, 1917 had made possible a reconstruction of life on collective, egalitarian and, above all, planned lines ... ”
