After a great splurge of activity in December…it’s all gone quiet! Well, Christmas and some family illness have impinged on my march across the country photographing these buildings…but plans are afoot to get out in the near future. In the meantime I have been continuing to grow the UK Brutalist map here on Google Maps …
I travelled into London on Saturday to take a look at 3 Brutalist buildings. The Civil Aviation Authority, Kings College London and The Barbican. To kick things off, here are some shots from The Barbican. Now, I will admit, I should have kept a note of which tower was which…as they are all look the …
From Google’s Dictionary: brutalism /ˈbruːt(ə)lɪz(ə)m/ noun 1. cruelty and savageness. “exchanging one kind of social and economic brutalism for another is not what they had in mind” 2. a stark style of functionalist architecture, especially of the 1950s and 1960s, characterized by the use of steel and concrete in massive blocks. “the long, low, concrete-faced …