Its staggering forms made monuments out of ordinary places frequented by ordinary people.
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A style born from post-war optimism and trauma, brutalism’s impact on culture, rebellion, and urban life remains deeply felt.
Fashions in architecture are, more or less, generational. So, the reappraisal of brutalism – a once-reviled style of architecture – is now virtually complete
Often described by critics as dehumanising, depressing and oppressive, Brutalism is having a moment – especially on social media.
A first glimpse of the low-income housing scheme, designed in collaboration with West, raises red flags.
Academics are often in the vanguard of the fight to preserve heritage buildings but they are losing the battle on home turf as universities shed their 1960s and 1970s concrete skins.
Dallas Rogers speaks with Nicole Cook about how union 'green bans' in the 1970s stopped the redevelopment of working-class suburbs in Sydney.
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Senior Lecturer, Discipline of Geography and Sustainability, School of Health and Society, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Justice and Society, UniSA, Adelaide University
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Head of Urbanism and Associate Professor of Urban Studies, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Associate professor, Architecture and Design, Swinburne University of Technology
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PhD Researcher in Punk, Brutalism & Psychogeography, School of Architecture Art & Design, University of Portsmouth
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Visiting Assistant Professor of History, West Virginia University