Raw concrete : the beauty of brutalism / Barnabas Calder.
"Raw Concrete overturns the perception of Brutalist buildings as the penny-pinching, utilitarian products of dutiful social concern. Instead it looks a little closer, uncovering the luxuriously skilled craft and daring engineering with which the best buildings of the 1960s came into being: magn...
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London :
William Heinemann,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Author's note
- Introduction: Raw concrete
- One. The Seduction of Concrete: Hermit's Castle, Achmelvich
- Two. Monuments to the People: Trellick Tower and Balfron Tower
- Three. The Banker's Commune: The Barbican
- Four. `Preponderately Precinctual in Intention': New Court, Christ's College, Cambridge
- Five. The 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
- Endnotes
- Acknowledgements
- Index.