The Brutalists: Brutalism's Best Architects
As seen in The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Forbes, ELLE Decoration, and Design MilkAn unprecedented survey of more than 250 architects who continue to define one of the most polarizing yet celebrated of stylesBrutalist architecture inspires a passionate response, be it adulation or contempt. There is no disputing, however, that the style produces some of the world's most breathtaking buildings. This landmark volume documents the movement as never before, by profiling the architects behind the style.Featuring more than 250 historic and contemporary architects (organised alphabetically) along with specially selected examples of their work, this book includes international icons alongside those who are less well known or who have for too long been neglected, providing a unique record of this influential global architecture movement. The book includes 350 stunning images of more than 200 iconic Brutalist buildings, alongside fresh and surprising masterworks from 1936 to the present day, creating the ultimate companion to the Brutalist masters.Featured architects include: John Andrews; Joo Batista Vilanova Artigas; Lina Bo Bardi; Bogdan Bogdanovic; Marcel Breuer; Douglas Cardinal; Andr-Jacques Dunoyer de Segonzac; Bertrand Goldberg; Ernő Goldfinger; Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak; Agustn Hernndez Navarro; John M. Johansen; Louis I. Kahn; Denys Lasdun; Le Corbusier; Joo da Gama Filgueiras Lima; Alberto Linner Daz; Owen Luder; Paulo Mendes da Rocha; Oscar Niemeyer; William L. Pereira; Affonso Eduardo Reidy; Paul Rudolph; Moshe Safdie; Alison Smithson; Clorindo Testa; Decio Tozzi; and John Carl Warnecke