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City Hall, Boston The Brutalist style conjures of harsh images, but the word derives from the French beton brut, or rough concrete. Nonetheless, it is well-named. (1950 through the mid-
1980s)
•Raw and exposed materials emphasizing stark forms.
•Weighty textured surfaces and massiveness, created mainly by large areas of patterned
concrete.•Windows consist of tiny openings
•Combination of voids and solids giving walls an egg-crate appearance
•Mechanical systems are left exposed on the interior of the bare structure
Brutalism
Convent of La Tourette, (1958)
Yale’s School of Art and Architecture
New Haven, CT
1958 Paul Rudolph
School of Art and Architecture, Yale (1958-63) Paul Rudolph
Inspired both by Wright's Larkin Building and Le Corbusier's La Tourette, this sculptural building has been criticized for "style at the expense of content.” The asymmetrical building, on an asymmetrical site (a corner), dominates the setting with its bold towers, housing mechanical services, and huge slabs bridging the towers. The building has also been criticized for its lack of functionality and "mysterious" plan--39 different levels on seven stories.
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Boston Public Library
Christian Science World Headquarters, tower Brutalism I.M.Pei 1968
Boston
Boston
NYC
Wilmington
Kingsbury ApartmentsTrenton, NJ
Building at Drexel University
Kline Biology Tower at Yale, Phillip Johnson 1964
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