Calder, Barnabas  <br/><br/>
Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism 

 -  William Heinemann  2016 
 - 416  16.05 x 3.99 x 24.03 cm 
<br/><br/>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: magnificent architectural visions serving clients rich and poor, radical and conservative. 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. In it, Barnabas Calder puts forward a powerful case: Brutalism is the best architecture there has ever been, and perhaps the best there ever will be. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780434022441 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Architecture<br/>Brutalism<br/>Brutalist buildings
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>ARCH  / CAL