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The Brutalists: Brutalism's Best Architects

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As seen in The New York Times , Architectural Digest , Forbes , ELLE Decoration , and Design Milk An unprecedented survey of more than 250 architects who continue to define one of the most polarizing yet celebrated of styles Brutalist architecture inspires a passionate response, be it adulation or contempt. There is no disputing, however, that the style produces some of the world’s most breathtaking buildings. This landmark volume documents the movement as never before, by profiling the architects behind the style. Featuring more than 250 historic and contemporary architects (organised alphabetically) along with specially selected examples of their work, this book includes international icons alongside those who are less well known or who have for too long been neglected, providing a unique record of this influential global architecture movement. The book includes 350 stunning images of more than 200 iconic Brutalist buildings, alongside fresh and surprising masterworks from 1936 to the present day, creating the ultimate companion to the Brutalist masters. Featured architects John Andrews; João Batista Vilanova Artigas; Lina Bo Bardi; Bogdan Bogdanović; Marcel Breuer; Douglas Cardinal; André-Jacques Dunoyer de Segonzac; Bertrand Goldberg; Ernő Goldfinger; Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak; Agustín Hernández Navarro; John M. Johansen; Louis I. Kahn; Denys Lasdun; Le Corbusier; João da Gama Filgueiras Lima; Alberto Linner Díaz; Owen Luder; Paulo Mendes da Rocha; Oscar Niemeyer; William L. Pereira; Affonso Eduardo Reidy; Paul Rudolph; Moshe Safdie; Alison Smithson; Clorindo Testa; Decio Tozzi; and John Carl Warnecke

368 pages, Hardcover

Published March 8, 2023

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July 26, 2025
If you like Brutalist architecture, you will love this book. The photos are amazing. It introduced me to many architects I had previously not known about and also inspired me to want to travel to different places to see these buildings in person.
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March 20, 2025
Beautiful, fascinating and well worth the cost.
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June 3, 2023
A beautiful, lovingly-curated selection of famous and lesser-known Brutalists, paired with their iconic buildings. The B&W photography is crisp and illustrative, and the selection of architects is genuinely global, as opposed to narrowly focused on the UK and USA. If you like this style, you need this book -- and if you hate Brutalism, this book might make you do a reevaluation of that opinion.
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1,729 reviews2 followers
June 13, 2023
Some breathtaking buildings, but mostly not in a good way. This is still such an intriguing style, I loved the stark black and white photos.
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November 24, 2023
Puikus albumas pristatantis geriausius brutaliojo architektūros stiliaus architektus ir jų geriausius darbus.
Mane labiausiai sudomino Prancūzijos (gim. Mexico) architekto Émile Aillaud daugiaaukščių gyvenamųjų namų kompleksas – Aillaud Towers (Paris). Būtų įdomu užmest akį į juos gyvai.



Šiaip jau, ne pirmą brutalistinės architektūros albumą vartau ir akivaizdžiai jų sudarytojai renkasi juodai baltas fotografijas, stipriau pabrėžiančias šio stiliaus grubumą. Aš dažnai internete susirandu spalvotas tų pastatų nuotraukas ir kartais (o gal ir daugiau nei kartais) šis stilius nebe toks jau ir brutalus.



Meksikiečio architekto Erique del Mora sukurtą Ciudad universiteto kompleksą (1954) Mexico mieste teko pamatyt gyvai. Būtų nykuma baisi, bet jį gelbėja nuostabi bibliotekos pastato freska. O knygos juodai-baltoje nuotraukoje ji labai nekaip išrodo.



Estijoje gimusio amerikiečių architekto Lois I. Kahn San Diego (La Jola, California) Salk institutą (1965) rekomenduoja ne tik pamatyti, bet ir patirti. Na, kaip nutinka su viskuo ką turim panosėj – aplankyti neskubam, tad ir aš jo dar nemačiau/nepatyriau, nors gyvenu ne per toliausiai.



O štai japonų brutalisto Masaharu Takasaki Kihoku astronomijos muziejus (1995) ateivių akį turėtų tikrai patraukti.



Beje, tarp geriausiųjų - ir mūsiškių architektų Eduardo Chlomausko, Jono Kriukelio ir Zigmanto Liandsbergio Vilniaus sporto rūmai (1971).
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