Brutalist architecture

well as the local authorities. Lasdun’s architecture falls under the Brutalist architecture of the United Kingdom under which many prominent 20th century British and European architects worked. Among the architects that worked under Brutalism and had great influence on Lasdun’s architecture were Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Nicholas Hawksmoor. Lasdun’s fame as a world class architect could be largely attributed to the fact that his architecture spanned the whole era of modernism in British

New Brutalism’, this essay aims to achieve a closer insight on the style and theories of the Brutalist architecture. The style’s appellation originated from the french translation, ‘béton-brut’, which meant ‘raw concrete’. Brutalism was first introduced by the architects Peter, and Alison Smithson who formed an emergence of many controversies of its definition and characteristics. The post-war architecture sought to reveal the honesty of material due to the experience of an economic crisis. This critical

Explain the differences between the Hayward gallery (1968) and its South Bank neighbour, the Royal Festival Hall (1951) in terms of their planning and finishing and in the different ways they relate to their urban context. 
 While there are many similarities between the Hayward Gallery and Royal Festival Hall, there also are a number of differences in terms of planning and finishing in relation to urban context. Higgs and Hill built the Hayward Gallery, which opened on The 9th of July. It is an art

prize for Latin American Architecture (2000). In 2006, Mendes da Rocha received the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The jury cited his “deep understanding of the poetics of space” and an “architecture of profound social engagement.” He said that “All space must be attached to a value, to a public dimension. There is no private space. The only private space that you can imagine is the human mind.” Throughout his works, simple and powerful are

beauty supposed to be quod visum placet(that which seen, pleases), image may be defined as quod visum perturbat - that which seen, affects the emotions, a situation which could subsume the pleasure caused by beauty. Brutalism recognised both by the Brutalist and their critics as being anti-art, or any rate anti-beauty in the classical aesthetic sense of the word. That statement

immediate solutions to our contemporary situation. The political and economical situations in advanced western countries discussed by Koolhaas & Self has reached a point of crisis. Calling into question the cultural production and institutions which architecture works within and constructs. By understanding the situation through the Hegelian dialectic, literature and architectural examples which look back to Brutalism highlight that architects and academics are searching for a language which can develop

as much as emphasising the building itself. In addition, architectural photography provoked the emergence of modern forms and structures; however, contextualizing buildings within the image was unnecessary. It was believed that architecture could reform people- architecture is the art one lives in and thus rational design could make rational societies.2 This idea was very much a driving force of representation which drawings, photography and archigram intended to reform their urban landscape. Unlike

DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF ART & DESIGN LEICESTER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE ARCH1031 HISTORY & THEORY 1 ESSAY In 1956, various people broke

Rococo is the revolt against complicated Baroque that decorated the interior of Versailles, in revolt against the palace and after the death of Louis XIV, French women who had city houses in Paris inspired a new lightened airy style of decor and architecture. As seen in the Salon de la Princess, the structure of the room has virtually been covered up by white walls of wood and mirrors, and it only contains hints

accepted. In architecture realm, it has become an important instrument in both design process and in the everyday operation of buildings and the city. After all, the current revolution is not just about the computer as a tool, but about its role in architecture design. Nowadays, the world is experiencing variety of new built environment with sophisticated forms as a result of this technological movement. Also, with the interaction between the computational development in architecture and the contemporary