TY  - BOOK
AU  - Calder, Barnabas 
TI  - Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism
SN  - 9780434022441
U1  - ARCH 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - .
PB  - William Heinemann
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Brutalism
KW  - Brutalist buildings
N1  - 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
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