more and more brutalist buildings are earmarked for demolition.
"Croft believes that brutalism and concrete were particularly suited to the British landscape and climate. She is writing a book about concrete, the material favoured by British brutalists ever since they looked at Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation in Marseilles and saw that they could bring it here and give it authentically domestic expression. "Architects like Luder knew what they were doing. They were brave artists," she says. But she is more concerned about how we have misunderstood concrete and failed to respond to its aesthetic potentialities. "Concrete gets a really bad press. It's not seen as beautiful, but it is. It has really beautiful stainings."
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"Croft believes that brutalism and concrete were particularly suited to the British landscape and climate. She is writing a book about concrete, the material favoured by British brutalists ever since they looked at Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation in Marseilles and saw that they could bring it here and give it authentically domestic expression. "Architects like Luder knew what they were doing. They were brave artists," she says. But she is more concerned about how we have misunderstood concrete and failed to respond to its aesthetic potentialities. "Concrete gets a really bad press. It's not seen as beautiful, but it is. It has really beautiful stainings."
- bill 3-15-2004 10:29 pm