Raw concrete : the beauty of brutalism / Barnabas Calder.
Publisher: UK : Penguin Books, 2022Description: 405 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: BDZ0049393556ISBN: 9781529156089 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Brutalism (Architecture) -- Great Britain | Architecture and Planning
| Architecture | History of architecture | City & town planning: architectural aspects | History | United Kingdom, Great Britain | Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999 | Architectural structure & design | Architecture: public buildings | Biography: general | Individual architects & architectural firms | Individual artists, art monographs | Individual photographersDDC classification: 720.94109045 LOC classification: NA968.5.B78 | C3 2022Summary: AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARBeginning 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.
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AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR
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.
Originally published: London: William Heinemann, 2016.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARBeginning 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.
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