Brutalism is probably the most controversial style of the 20th century. Century. Long ago, these buildings have the world’s enthusiastic supporters. The New York Museum of Modern Art, shows the architecture of the former Yugoslavia.
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Preserve or Demolish: Brutalist architecture around the world
Manifest from raw concrete
Brutalist architecture, this means above all: a Lot of raw concrete. Exposed concrete, a French “béton brut”, was the klotzigen architectural style its name. A pioneer of this modernist design by the famous architect Le Corbusier, built the “Cité Radieuse” in Marseille. Here is the basement. Many of the buildings of the gradual decay or demolition threatens today.
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Preserve or Demolish: Brutalist architecture around the world
Central Documentation Site
The National and University library of Kosovo, by Andrija Mutnjakovic designed, was inaugurated in 1982 in Pristina. You should collect “the documentary and intellectual heritage of Kosovo, preserve and promote”. The building itself is supposed to represent a style, “the Byzantine and Islamic architectural forms together,” says the architect. The photo is part of the exhibition.
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Preserve or Demolish: Brutalist architecture around the world
Strong Contrasts
This 1971-built monument by Miodrag Zivkovic is located in the Sutjeska national Park in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was built to commemorate the roughly 20,000 partisans, fought in may and June of 1943, against the advancing German troops. The work will be shown in the exhibition “Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980,” in the New York MoMA.
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Preserve or Demolish: Brutalist architecture around the world
Brutalism around the globe
In the 1950s to 1970s brutalism flourished around the World, the monumental concrete colossi emerged, and the world was a fight to you. In India, it was Le Corbusier who suggested in 1951 with two distinctive buildings in Chandigarh and Ahmedabad new architectural currents on the subcontinent, and many architects are so inspired.
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Preserve or Demolish: Brutalist architecture around the world
A lot to discover: brutalism in Eastern Europe
In recent years, many complex image volumes have been published to the variety of brutal ballistic architecture in Eastern Europe. For the preservation of the “Thermal Hotel” in the Czech Republic since the 1960s, the “International film festival Karlovy Vary” takes place, the family of the architects of a campaign under the name of “respect mA’am”.
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Preserve or Demolish: Brutalist architecture around the world
Hot debates in America and England
Particularly controversial are the gray giants in the United States and the United Kingdom. Prince Charles is an ardent brutalism opponents. In the case of “The Egg” in Alabany, New York, however, there is no danger. The 1978 building is as a “Center for Performing Arts,” of great popularity.
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Preserve or Demolish: Brutalist architecture around the world
Brutalist classic, to be demolished
For the preservation of the residential complex “Robin Hood Gardens” in East London, built by the architects Alison and Peter Smithson, was fought over for years. The campaign also joined the 2016 late star architect Zaha Hadid. It was no use. In the late summer of 2017, the excavators moved in and began the demolition.
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Preserve or Demolish: Brutalist architecture around the world
Stage wins at the monument protection
Some brutalist buildings are standing today under monument protection. Then you will not be demolished, but their use can still be problematic. The Preston Bus Station in Britain, for example, is much too huge for the amount of buses should arrive and depart. An architect’s office in New York is now planning a partial change of use with a climbing wall, soccer field and Skate Park.
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Preserve or Demolish: Brutalist architecture around the world
German brutalism in danger
Also in Germany, brutalist buildings are under threat. The project #SOSBrutalismus by the German Museum of architecture (DAM) in cooperation with the Stiftung Wüstenrot wants to make on the decay of the buildings carefully. Including the Central animal laboratories of the Free University of Berlin, also the “mouse bunker”.
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Preserve or Demolish: Brutalist architecture around the world
Successful Conversion
If the money for maintenance and rehabilitation is lacking is fast, the whole construction in danger. The brutalist St. Agnes Church in Berlin was a case in point. In 2011, it was leased by the Berlin gallerist Johann König and rehabilitated. It is preserved in its original architecture and now seat of the gallery of king.
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Preserve or Demolish: Brutalist architecture around the world
“El Helicoide” in Caracas
The “Helicoide de la Roca Tarpeya” in Caracas, Venezuela, should be a huge Shopping Center. Due to under-funding and the political conflicts of the construction, in 1960, was stopped. In the 1970s, the building was illegally occupied, later, by the secret service as a service seat. Today it is partly used as a prison for political prisoners. The building is surrounded by Slums.
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Preserve or Demolish: Brutalist architecture around the world
The brutalism new encounter
The Habitat 67 in Montreal, Canada, belongs to buildings to the most brutally ballistic. Architect Moshe Safdie had designed it for the Expo in 1967, and actually, as a reaction against the brutalism understood. Since 2009, it is under monument protection and is now considered “architecture”.
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Preserve or Demolish: Brutalist architecture around the world
Manifest from raw concrete
Brutalist architecture, this means above all: a Lot of raw concrete. Exposed concrete, a French “béton brut”, was the klotzigen architectural style its name. A pioneer of this modernist design by the famous architect Le Corbusier, built the “Cité Radieuse” in Marseille. Here is the basement. Many of the buildings of the gradual decay or demolition threatens today.
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Preserve or Demolish: Brutalist architecture around the world
Central Documentation Site
The National and University library of Kosovo, by Andrija Mutnjakovic designed, was inaugurated in 1982 in Pristina. You should collect “the documentary and intellectual heritage of Kosovo, preserve and promote”. The building itself is supposed to represent a style, “the Byzantine and Islamic architectural forms together,” says the architect. The photo is part of the exhibition.
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Preserve or Demolish: Brutalist architecture around the world
Strong Contrasts
This 1971-built monument by Miodrag Zivkovic is located in the Sutjeska national Park in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was built to commemorate the roughly 20,000 partisans, fought in may and June of 1943, against the advancing German troops. The work will be shown in the exhibition “Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980,” in the New York MoMA.
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Preserve or Demolish: Brutalist architecture around the world
Brutalism around the globe
In the 1950s to 1970s brutalism flourished around the World, the monumental concrete colossi emerged, and the world was a fight to you. In India, it was Le Corbusier who suggested in 1951 with two distinctive buildings in Chandigarh and Ahmedabad new architectural currents on the subcontinent, and many architects are so inspired.
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Preserve or Demolish: Brutalist architecture around the world
A lot to discover: brutalism in Eastern Europe
In recent years, many complex image volumes have been published to the variety of brutal ballistic architecture in Eastern Europe. For the preservation of the “Thermal Hotel” in the Czech Republic since the 1960s, the “International film festival Karlovy Vary” takes place, the family of the architects of a campaign under the name of “respect mA’am”.
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Preserve or Demolish: Brutalist architecture around the world
Hot debates in America and England
Particularly controversial are the gray giants in the United States and the United Kingdom. Prince Charles is an ardent brutalism opponents. In the case of “The Egg” in Alabany, New York, however, there is no danger. The 1978 building is as a “Center for Performing Arts,” of great popularity.
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Preserve or Demolish: Brutalist architecture around the world
Brutalist classic, to be demolished
For the preservation of the residential complex “Robin Hood Gardens” in East London, built by the architects Alison and Peter Smithson, was fought over for years. The campaign also joined the 2016 late star architect Zaha Hadid. It was no use. In the late summer of 2017, the excavators moved in and began the demolition.
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Preserve or Demolish: Brutalist architecture around the world
Stage wins at the monument protection
Some brutalist buildings are standing today under monument protection. Then you will not be demolished, but their use can still be problematic. The Preston Bus Station in Britain, for example, is much too huge for the amount of buses should arrive and depart. An architect’s office in New York is now planning a partial change of use with a climbing wall, soccer field and Skate Park.
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Preserve or Demolish: Brutalist architecture around the world
German brutalism in danger
Also in Germany, brutalist buildings are under threat. The project #SOSBrutalismus by the German Museum of architecture (DAM) in cooperation with the Stiftung Wüstenrot wants to make on the decay of the buildings carefully. Including the Central animal laboratories of the Free University of Berlin, also the “mouse bunker”.
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Preserve or Demolish: Brutalist architecture around the world
Successful Conversion
If the money for maintenance and rehabilitation is lacking is fast, the whole construction in danger. The brutalist St. Agnes Church in Berlin was a case in point. In 2011, it was leased by the Berlin gallerist Johann König and rehabilitated. It is preserved in its original architecture and now seat of the gallery of king.
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Preserve or Demolish: Brutalist architecture around the world
“El Helicoide” in Caracas
The “Helicoide de la Roca Tarpeya” in Caracas, Venezuela, should be a huge Shopping Center. Due to under-funding and the political conflicts of the construction, in 1960, was stopped. In the 1970s, the building was illegally occupied, later, by the secret service as a service seat. Today it is partly used as a prison for political prisoners. The building is surrounded by Slums.
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Preserve or Demolish: Brutalist architecture around the world
The brutalism new encounter
The Habitat 67 in Montreal, Canada, belongs to buildings to the most brutally ballistic. Architect Moshe Safdie had designed it for the Expo in 1967, and actually, as a reaction against the brutalism understood. Since 2009, it is under monument protection and is now considered “architecture”.
Nestled between the capitalist West and the socialist East, influenced by the regional location of Yugoslavia, the architects of the country.
The buildings were a “Manifestation of the radical variety and of the idealism which characterized the Yugoslav state,” writes the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) on its Website about the exhibition “Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980”, since the 15. To see July 2018.
For the first Time the Work of the leading architects of the socialist Yugoslavia will be shown to an international audience. The Show focuses on “issues of large-scale urbanization, technology in everyday life, consumerism, monuments and memory”.
The exhibition includes hundreds of drawings, photographs and rolls of film, the various impressions, among others, from the Inside of the White mosque in rural Bosnia-blocks to the rebuilding of the city of Skopje after the earthquake or from the Belgrade district of Novi Beograd, with its large living reflect.
The exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art runs until 13. January 2019.
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