The Brutalists: Brutalism’s Best Architects by Owen Hopkins
A new book published by Phaidon and designed by Philipp Doringer at Studio Joost Grootens. This unprecedented survey of more than 250 architects working in the Brutalist style features a bold typographic hardcover using the condensed geometric typeface WT Skrappa (designed by WiseType). The inside layouts are clean, simple and methodical – owing to Joost Grootens precise attention to detail and experience with architectural publications. The typography marries Skrappa for headlines with the robust Monument Grotesk medium (by Dinamo) for text.
The Brutalists was written by Owen Hopkins and published by Phaidon. The hardback edition has 368 pages measuring 290×205 mm (11⅜×8⅛ in) and contains 350 illustrations.
ISBN: 9781838665630
As introduced by Phaidon on their website:
An unprecedented survey of more than 250 architects who continue to define one of the most polarizing yet celebrated of styles
Brutalist architecture inspires a passionate response, be it adulation or contempt. There is no disputing, however, that the style produces some of the world’s most breathtaking buildings. This landmark volume documents the movement as never before, by profiling the architects behind the style.
Featuring more than 250 historic and contemporary architects (organised alphabetically) along with specially selected examples of their work, this book includes international icons alongside those who are less well known or who have for too long been neglected, providing a unique record of this influential global architecture movement. The book includes 350 stunning images of more than 200 iconic Brutalist buildings, alongside fresh and surprising masterworks from 1936 to the present day, creating the ultimate companion to the Brutalist masters.
Featured architects include: John Andrews; João Batista Vilanova Artigas; Lina Bo Bardi; Bogdan Bogdanović; Marcel Breuer; Douglas Cardinal; André-Jacques Dunoyer de Segonzac; Bertrand Goldberg; Ernő Goldfinger; Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak; Agustín Hernández Navarro; John M. Johansen; Louis I. Kahn; Denys Lasdun; Le Corbusier; João da Gama Filgueiras Lima; Alberto Linner Díaz; Owen Luder; Paulo Mendes da Rocha; Oscar Niemeyer; William L. Pereira; Affonso Eduardo Reidy; Paul Rudolph; Moshe Safdie; Alison Smithson; Clorindo Testa; Decio Tozzi; and John Carl Warnecke
