Following the release of CLOG: Brutalism—the architecture journal's most recent issue—CLOG and DoCoMoMO NY Tristate are pleased to co-sponsor a panel discussion that will focus on the politics, opportunities, and constraints surrounding these structures. The conversation will address common issues faced by Brutalist buildings including their structural potential, aesthetics, and how these factors and more make the question of preserving Brutalist structures difficult and oftentimes contentious. — clog-online.com
For those of you who heart brutalism, we still have some t-shirts left.
Oh, and CLOG is hiring, if you haven't heard.
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What and where is the above building? I think of brutalism as oppressive. The scale and scalloped features of this building don't make it seem brutalistic to me, although it does look dated. There's actually something appealing about its overall proportions. The only foreboding elements are those 2 "chimneys" or pilasters up front but, then again, design is subjective whereas a pregnancy test is not. Being slightly pregnant is not an option.
Morris A. Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore.
Aesthetics of Brutalism
When I see Brutalist architecture I dont look at the concrete. What I see is how the parts, the functional shapes fit together to form a whole. The aesthetic 'feeling' of parts making up the whole, if that is the feeling one gets from reading this, is similar to a well constructed argument. The aesthetic of Brutalism's fuctional rationalism is expressed concretely (pun intended!) as form.
BTW the architect is John Johansen. Glen Small relates his friendship,in a obit here.
http://www.smallatlarge.com/2012/11/john-johansen-bites-the-dust/
as in beton brut
not as in brutal
or as in fauve
as opposed to fauve
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