Luis Martínez   A movie that has just premiered in Venice to much applause tells the fictional life story of an architect who flees from a devastated Europe after World War II…

The photographer Manuel Álvarez Diestro captures the least-known image of Cairo's architectural legacy by focusing on brutalist structures of the last century. In composing the shots he presents the buildings in a context of abandonment and marginali

John Puttick Associates was awarded the 2021 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize, recognizing its thoughtful and detailed conservation of Preston Bus Station, located in Preston, UK, a civic monument of central importance that serves as a hub

The News & Observer   Richard Stradling   The dismantling of The Elion-Hitchings Building, near where Cornwallis Road meets the Durham Freeway, has been underway internally for several months. But now the demolition has reached the point where workers are pulling the building apart and hauli

The Guardian   Lanre Bakare   Some of the finest examples of brutalist architecture in the north of England are at risk of being torn down, according to a photographer who believes a crucial part of the country’s architectural history could be lost in the process. Simon Phipps, t

The Guardian   Ivana Sekularac   After the second world war, socialist Yugoslavia set out to reconstruct a land destroyed by fighting. Concrete residential blocks, hotels, civic centres and monuments shot up across the country in a show of power from a state between two worlds, west

The rise of a renewed interest in Brutalism seventy years after its birth is reflected both in the growing defense of heritage ascribed to this architectural current – arising from the Modern Movement with Le Corbusier and the use of béton brut (raw

Though hard to fit into the narratives of architectural modernity, or precisely as a consequence of it, the architecture of communist countries after World War ii has for a number of years now drawn the attention of several institutions and scholars

Carlos Traspaderne   Logroño  2022  
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Peter Chadwick   London  2016  
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Elain Harwood   English Architecture 1945-1975