Main entry:

Calder, Barnabas, author.

Title & Author:

Raw concrete : the beauty of brutalism / Barnabas Calder.

Publication:

[London] : Penguin, 2022.
©2016

Description:

ix, 406 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
One. Seduction of Concrete: Hermit's Castle, Achmelvich -- Two. Monuments to the People: Trellick Tower and Balfron Tower -- Three. Banker's Commune: The Barbican -- Four. `Preponderately Precinctual in Intention': New Court, Christ's College, Cambridge -- Five. Establishment's Radical: Professor Sir Leslie Martin, PhD -- Six. `Too Commercial -- No Convictions': Developers' Brutalism -- Seven. Good Ordinary Brutalism: The University of Strathclyde Architecture Building and the Newbery Tower -- Eight. Concrete Violin: The National Theatre -- Epilogue. Destruction and preservation.

Summary:

Beginning in a tiny hermitage on the remote north Scottish coast, and ending up backstage at the National Theatre, Raw Concrete embarks on a wide-ranging journey through Britain over the past sixty years, stopping to examine how eight extraordinary buildings were made - from commission to construction - why they have been so vilified, and why they are beginning to be loved.

ISBN:

1529156084 (paperback)
9781529156089 (paperback)

Subject:

Brutalism (Architecture) Great Britain.
Architecture Great Britain History 20th century.
Architecture and society Great Britain History 20th century.
Concrete.
Brutalisme (Architecture) Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture et société Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Béton.
Brutalism (Architecture)
Architecture History Great Britain 20th century.
Great Britain

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315648
Call No.: 315648
Copy: 1
Status: Available