re Brut

Brutalism was an architectural movement that was often overlooked as it fell between two major architectural movements: "Modernism" and "Post-Modernism". With the reemergence of post-modern issues in contemporary architectural discourse, I think that it is an important time to reexamine Brutalism and give it its proper credit and not dismiss it as an unpopular architectural style. One of the defining features of Britalism was the use of honest materials such as beton brut or "raw concrete", but I don't think that it is the most important feature of Brutalism. To rethink these notions of materiality this Blog will examine ways that mixing "real" with "artifice" could develop a more contemporary and less earnest attitude towards materiality. To do this this Blog will gather images of the past and present from architecture to art & culture and everything in between in an attempt to formulate a future yet to come. Re Brut is not your father's Brutalist architecture; this is an architecture of the now, and architecture that doesn't take itself so seriously.                                                                                                

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DAZZLE CAMOUFLAGE OF WWI

Modern art, wartime strategy and perceptual psychology converged during World War I, giving rise to dazzle camouflage. The only color visual records of dazzle camouflage from the period are paint-scheme drawings made by the Admiralty and modernist marine paintings. The picture by Group of 7 artist Arthur Lismer of HMS Olympic in dazzle is not a fauvist hallucination, but a true record of the ship’s appearance just after the Armistice.  The modernist painter Edward Wadsworth (British, 1889-1949) supervised the application of dazzle camouflage at the Liverpool naval shipbuilding yards during World War I. He painted the image above and others, and also made wood block prints depicting ships in dazzle. After the war, he also painted abstract compositions based on dazzle patterns.

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Trinity Square Shopping Centre, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, UK, 1967

(Owen Luder Partnership)

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International Kino, Karl Marx Allee 33 Berlin, Germany, built between 1961–63, architect: Josef Kaiser, Heinz Aust.

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Chiesa Madre di Gibellina, Ludovico Quaroni. Aprile 2015

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AIR RAID WATCHTOWER

» a remnant from the cold war: an air raid watchtower; warfhuizen, netherlands, april 2013.

(yashica 635, expired kodak portra 400 nc, reflecta mf5000 film scanner)

by: reinier treur - www.treur.org

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The  Italian Job 1969 

Chase atop the Fiat track

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From Charles Bueb’s book Ronchamp: Le Corbusier (via findelbloc)

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#selfie 

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Basilica de Guadelupe, Mexico

Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, Francisco Antonio de Guerrero y Torres

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Johannesburg Grand Central Water Tower

Gapp Architects & Urban Designers

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Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social, San Jose, Costa Rica. 

Alberto Linner

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The John P. Robarts Research Library, University of Toronto (Mathers & Haldenby Architects with Warner, Burns, Toan & Lunde, 1968-1973)

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Central Research Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics, 

St. Petersburg, Russia (1973-1988)

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Sky Plaza car park. Leicester, April 2015.

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International Terminal, John F. Kennedy Airport, New York, 1970

(Gollins Melvin Ward)

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Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban, the house of the Parliament of Bangladesh, Dhaka (Louis Kahn, 1961-1982)