Over the course of a few decades ending in the mid-’70s, architects such as Erno Goldfinger, Alison and Peter Smithson, and Sir Basil Spence made London a brutalist playground. Forty years later, many ...
The world’s first museum devoted entirely to Brutalist architecture has been announced and is set to open in a secondary school in North London in 2027. Reed Watts Architects, founded in London in ...
The Barbican Centre, the National Theatre and Alexandra & Ainsworth Estate. The capital is absolutely brimming with brutalist icons, so it’s only right that we should have an entire museum dedicated ...
Editor’s Note: Timothy Brittain-Catlin is a Reader in Architecture at the University of Kent, and a trustee and deputy chairman of the Twentieth Century Society. The views expressed in this commentary ...
A tour of Brutalist architecture in London aboard the National Trust’s 1962 Routemaster Coach. Led by architectural and cultural experts Tom Cordell and Joe Kerr, the tours explore the emergence and ...
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