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My contribution today is titled Walking with buildings. The flâneur and the (im)mobilizing power of non-human narrators and aims to reflect on the contrasting encounter between the apparent immobility of buildings, as non-human inert... more
Wenn heute vom Forum die Rede ist, dürfte eine breite Assoziationskette ins Spiel kommen, da das Forum längst zum Synonym für Öffentlichkeit geworden ist . Es darauf zu reduzieren, wäre jedoch zu kurz gegriffen und würde seinem Einfluss... more
The interior architecture of five selected NSW Brutalist civic-scale buildings from 1963-1978 is addressed through an analysis of interior planning, internal scale, lighting and materiality to identify and isolate the sensual elements in... more
Jean François Zevaco, attraverso un uso originale e ardito delle potenzialità estetiche e strutturali del calcestruzzo, trasforma il progetto del Complesso termale di Sidi Harazem (1961) in un percorso poetico nel quale... more
Emerging from a feeling of trauma, protest and a spirit of optimism, brutalism melds two partly contradicting approaches: The theoretical approaches of a small group, whose architectural expression was initially found in the fundamental... more
[EN] "DOCUMENTING THE BUILT: RECOGNISING & MAPPING SINGLE-FAMILY BRUTALIST HOUSES OF BRASILIA" - Dissertation thesis: Bachelor's Degree (BA) in "Theory, Criticism and History of Art", University of Brasília The project's proposal was to... more
The Barbican Estate is a mixed use residential estate built between 1963 and 1982, in London, following a competition launched by the City of London Corporation, in 1951, to develop a high-quality housing scheme in the north area of... more
The etymology of the word estate serves as a fitting framework for our discussion. Derived from the middle English -in the sense state or condition, and speaking to social ranking, class, property and possessions, estate applies to... more
In the theatrical narrative of Shakespeare’s play 'Julius Caesar' is the portrayal Caesar’s tragic death. Taking place in Act 111, and at the point of being stabbed to death, Caesar recognising ‘Brutus’ his most trusted supporter among... more
This paper was presented at ‘Tusculum’, the Australian Institute of Architects (NSW Chapter) on 6 September 2016. Abstract: For the twenty seven years in which the Brutalism aesthetic found favour in Sydney, the urban morphology of the... more
While the topics of Brutalism, world building and dystopias have been researched independently, they have yet to be analysed merged in the form of a video game. In 2019 Remedy Entertainment published their newest game, Control. The... more
In Function Follow Form Theory, form is a major focus in the design, making visual acceleration is very important, while the function of the space must be able to follow and set based on pre-existing forms. This theory also spawned the... more
Abstract: A new and bold architectural movement, New Brutalism gained momentum in the 1950s across the world. At the same time, in Bulgaria in the wake of the April Plenum of 1956, architecture was let free to protest against the imposed... more
Massive, raw concrete structures - the likes of the Telecommunications Building (1972/1981) by Janko Konstantinov; the campus of Ss. Cyril and Methodius University (1974) by Marko Mušič; the National Hydraulic Institute (1972) by Krsto... more
Der Architekt Andres Liesch ist wohl die markanteste Persönlichkeit der Architektur nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg in Graubünden. Über 250 Gebäude aus seiner Feder stehen in Graubünden und im Kanton Zürich. Einen bedeutenden Teil davon... more
This introduction to the early 1960s formation of Britain's celebrated avant-garde architecture group, Archigram, was written for The Twentieth Century Society's 2002 book "The Sixties," edited by Elain Harwood and Alan Powers. It argues... more
Pretendo nesta dissertação descrever os acontecimentos que estiveram na origem do termo Brutalismo, a partir da discussão que foi suscitada pelos arquitectos e críticos que o desenvolveram como sendo uma hipótese de superação do Movimento... more
RESUMO O objetivo do presente estudo é investigar e analisar as diversas possibilidades projetuais e construtivas que se apresentam perante o desafio do “projetar” em arquitetura, que surgem ao longo da jornada profissional e pessoal, e... more
This study investigates changes in the popularity of Brutalist buildings from the 1940’s to present. Our methodological framework is derived from three sources: (1) Reinhardt Koselleck’s work on historical consciousness in the field of... more
Resumen: Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial surgieron las posvanguardias arquitectónicas; es decir, aquellas corrientes que reaccionan ante la totalidad del discurso de la arquitectura moderna. En 1953 los arquitectos Alison y Peter... more
Diante de uma crescente presença da imagem e da fotografia como meio fundamental de transmissão de ideias e conhecimento na sociedade contemporânea, o presente artigo busca uma possibilidade de análise de projeto arquitetônico por meio da... more
İstanbul’un Kadıköy ilçesinde bulunan Kaplancalı Apartmanı, Maruf Önal’ın tasarlayıp uygulamasını üstlendiği az sayıdaki apartman projesinden biridir. Bu özgün tasarım, Önal’ın olgunluk dönemi eserleri arasında yer alır. Kaplancalı... more
Mirjana Lozanovska is Associate Professor at Deakin University. Her work investigates the creative ways that architecture mediates human dignity and identity through multidisciplinary theories of space, and it examines migration/mobility... more
The term “brutalism” refers to the movement in architecture which arose from high modernism and lasted for a short period from 1950 to 1970. The first use of the term is connected to the works of English architects Peter Smithson and... more
The Transformation of Villa Savoye into the National Library: Le Corbusier's influence on two generations of architects in Israel
The screening of the promotion video for Skopje 2014 made evident that the Macedonian government perceived the problem of Skopje to be one of aesthetics. The aim to participate in the global cultural economy and tourist industry was to be... more
SITU, founded and curated by Bruno de Almeida and developed by Galeria Leme, is a platform of production and research that promotes the dialogue between art, architecture and the city, as a tool to broaden the analysis and questioning of... more
The Baby Boom and the launch of Sputnik with its widely held belief that North America was falling behind the Soviet Union in education were the two factors leading to the establish of several new universities in Canada in the 1960s and... more
The fall of the Berlin Wall not only anticipated the demise of Communism as a political symbol in the former Eastern Bloc and beyond, but it also meant for millions of citizens the loss of the reference points around which their identity... more
This rebuttal proof is a response to several proofs of evidence submitted by objectors at this public inquiry. In particular it is a response to the evidence of Professor Loretta Lees regarding so called displacement and 'breaking up the... more
Transitional Monument was made as a proposal for a public artwork. The two images show photos of a now demolished sixties tower block, Linosa Close, Liverpool, with William Morris designs digitally montaged onto the exterior. The proposal... more
The emergence of Brutalism in Serbian architecture is mainly connected to the works of several architects, with Branislav Jovin being one of the most significant authors in this group. He is well-known for his project “Belgrade... more