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This Brutal World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 177 ratings — published 2016
Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 582 ratings — published 2013
Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.32 — 181 ratings — published 2016
CLOG: Brutalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 28 ratings — published 2013
Simon Phipps Finding Brutalism: A Photographic Survey of Post-War British Architecture (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 18 ratings — published 2018
Alison & Peter Smithson: A Critical Anthology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 2012
Brutalist Britain: Buildings of the 1960s and 1970s (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 22 ratings — published
Brutalism Reinvented (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 10 ratings — published
Borderlines: A History of Europe, Told from the Edges (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.96 — 686 ratings — published 2024
Soviet Bus Stops (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 478 ratings — published
Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 81,000 ratings — published 1978
Return to the Black Farm (The Black Farm, #2)
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avg rating 4.21 — 3,997 ratings — published
The Black Farm (The Black Farm, #1)
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avg rating 3.87 — 12,658 ratings — published 2017
The Crooked God Machine (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 560 ratings — published 2011
There Are No Saints (Sinners, #1)
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avg rating 3.78 — 121,685 ratings — published 2021
The Outer Darkness (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published
The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,295 ratings — published
The Laws of the Skies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.36 — 8,994 ratings — published 2016
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,269,015 ratings — published 1963
No Longer Human (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 271,135 ratings — published 1948
Let's Go Play at the Adams' (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.40 — 4,175 ratings — published 1974
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,619,977 ratings — published 1948
Blame!, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 5,650 ratings — published 1998
Landscapes of Communism: A History Through Buildings (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.04 — 243 ratings — published 2015
Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 561 ratings — published 2021
Moscow: A Guide To Soviet Modernest Architecture 1955-1991: A Guide To Modernest Soviet Architecture 1955-1991 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.60 — 10 ratings — published
Nostalgia of Culture: Contemporary Soviet Visionary Architecture (Architectural Association Text 6)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1988
Blueprints and Blood: The Stalinization of Soviet Architecture 1917-1937 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 1993
Concrete Concept: Brutalist buildings around the world (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 78 ratings — published 2016
Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 26 ratings — published 2015
Not Quite Architecture: Writing around Alison and Peter Smithson (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published
Concrete Siberia (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.41 — 75 ratings — published
How England Made the English: From Hedgerows to Heathrow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.34 — 524 ratings — published 2012
The Road to Wigan Pier Revisited (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 56 ratings — published 2011
Brutal North: Post-War Modernist Architecture in the North of England (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 40 ratings — published 2020
SOS Brutalism: A Global Survey (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 8 ratings — published
Atlas of Brutalist Architecture (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 123 ratings — published 2018
Massive, Expressive, Sculptural: Brutalism now and then (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 12 ratings — published
A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 286 ratings — published 2010
Star Dust (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 592 ratings — published 2005
Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.36 — 654 ratings — published 2018
Bright Dead Things (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 14,855 ratings — published 2015
The Pale King (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 20,216 ratings — published 2011
Requiem (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,007 ratings — published 1963
Ariel (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 91,137 ratings — published 1965
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 232,890 ratings — published 1985
Milk and honey (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 824,485 ratings — published 2014
おやすみプンプン コミック 全13巻完結セット (Oyasumi Punpun Box Set)
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avg rating 4.66 — 6,446 ratings — published 2007
Mira Corpora (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 848 ratings — published 2013
“Structural truth at all costs war their motto and all buildings which attempted to conceal the true nature of their construction, or to disguise the materials in which they were carried out, stood convicted of acting a lie. That a high proportion of the buildings which many generations of man-kind had agreed to regard as masterpieces failed to reach this exalted standard was held to be quite irrelevant.
Unfortunately the new theory did not in practice prove quite so easy to carry out satisfactorily as hoped. Simplicity is not invariably and on every occasion a virtue, and while desperate attempts to lend some transient interest to a hopelessly uninspired structure by a top-dressing of cornice and pilasters are doubtless reprehensible, the bright, unvarnished truth tends too often to be even more depressing. After all few of us, by and large, look our best in the nude.”
― Here, of All Places
Unfortunately the new theory did not in practice prove quite so easy to carry out satisfactorily as hoped. Simplicity is not invariably and on every occasion a virtue, and while desperate attempts to lend some transient interest to a hopelessly uninspired structure by a top-dressing of cornice and pilasters are doubtless reprehensible, the bright, unvarnished truth tends too often to be even more depressing. After all few of us, by and large, look our best in the nude.”
― Here, of All Places
“I'd like the whole world to be built on these terms, but for now, let's cherish the Barbican and what it means.”
― Barbican Residents: Inside the Iconic Brutalist Estate
― Barbican Residents: Inside the Iconic Brutalist Estate
