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The Values of The Brutalist Concrete giants: Euro

The Values of The Brutalist

Concrete giants: European Legacy in a New Land. The movie The Brutalist has triggered fresh interest in the origins and development of modernist architecture. The film is wrapped in the bold, austere aesthetic of Brutalism. Played by Adrian Brody, the principal protagonist is a gifted modernist architect, a Jew, a survivor of the Holocaust and an immigrant, a stranger in a strange land. Architects of Jewish heritage made significant contributions to modernist design and we ask the question, why?

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Side view of Chamberlin, Powell and Bon’s bold,

Side view of Chamberlin, Powell and Bon’s bold, brutalist ‘waterfall’ at the end of the Barbican Lake on the Barbican Estate in the City of London. Water is pumped from podium level down into the lake and it’s fabulously dramatic and noisy, sufficiently so that it is switched off at night for the sake of local residents. But let’s not ignore the planting all around the estate and lake. In an interview with Polly Powell, daughter of Geoffrey Powell by Greyscape.com she shared that “the trees and plants were just as important as the bricks and the mortar and the open spaces were as important as the built spaces”.

In the neighbourhood.,anyone want to hazard a gues

In the neighbourhood.,anyone want to hazard a guess - over large duck or seabird?

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