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Takes me back to when I was a University of Chicago student in 1970. Brutalist times!
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In Chicago on January 30th, 2015, outside the Regenstein Library on the campus of the University of Chicago, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and completed in 1970, on the north side of East 57th Street, east of South Ellis Avenue.
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Library of Congress classification ideas:
Z733.U55 University of Chicago. Library—Pictorial works.
Z679.2.U6 Library buildings—United States—Pictorial works.
NA712.5.B78 Brutalism (Architecture)—United States—Pictorial works.
Z675.U5 Academic libraries—United States—Pictorial works.
E169.12 Nineteen seventies—Pictorial works.
NA737.S53 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill—Pictorial works.
LD933 University of Chicago—Pictorial works.
F548.68.H9 Hyde Park (Chicago, Ill.)—Pictorial works.
F548.68.S69 South Side (Chicago, Ill.)—Pictorial works.
F548.37 Chicago (Ill.)—Pictorial works.
This is the Hampton Coliseum at 1000 Coliseum Dr in Hampton, VA.
It opened in 1969 and sports some absolutely gorgeous brutalist architecture. It can be seen from Interstates 64 and 664.
Balboa Park BART station
San Francisco
"Expressionist architecture" and also Brutalism
architecture: Corlett & Spackman
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skydebanehave børnehave/kindergarten, copenhagen, denmark 1948-1950.
architect: hans christian hansen, 1901-1978, working for the copenhagen municipal architects department.
three years after the german occupation, hans christian hansen designed a small kindergarten for an old private garden recently purchased by the municipality. he was well into his forties and had been a job architect with the municipal architects department since receiving a gold medal from the academy ten years earlier. he was in his twentieth year of employment there. but the work he had done both for the city and in private practise followed closely what was happening in copenhagen at the time.
the kindergarten, by any standards a modest building, is important to us since this is where we meet, for the first time, the unique architect hans chr. hansen became. he was clearly distancing himself from the wartime brick nationalism of the klint school, but without making that most common mistake in modern architecture of dismissing everything learnt in the previous period. the brickwork was still there, only in the gables, the informal compostition (which you cannot see from this photo), the humanity of it.
but so was a concrete frame in beton brut, a south facing glass facade with a balcony and screen wall in painted wood for privacy and shade, a corrugated roof (since changed), and that restless section which would characterise almost every building subsequently to come from his drawing board. even the dense web of verticals across the facade, we have seen so often, was there.
hansen the architect had arrived at himself, midcareer, with another twenty-odd years to go. late from a personal point of view, perhaps, but for his proto-brutalism, 1948 was timely or even early.
more words, yada, yada, yada.
the comments I have added to some of my photos can be read together as a kind of mangled, yet surprisingly brief essay on hansen. repetitious and opinionated, it reflects the writer above his subject, but until someone does some serious research on hansen, a complete lack of competition makes me immune to criticism. enjoy :)
01. introduction, amager 1966.
02. the engineer as ideal, hansen's pre-war architecture, sundholm 1939.
03. the church he didn't build. war and the return to tradition, 1942-1944.
04. following fisker. wartime housing, hulgårds plads 1943.
05. the architect finding himself in kindergarten, skydebanen 1948.
06. developing the restless section. hanssted school 1954.
07. early industrial. nyborggade transformer 1958.
08. the brutalist, bellahøj 1961.
09. perfect self-confidence, ringbo nursing home 1961.
10. perfect idiosyncrasy. ringbo bell tower 1961.
11. the masterpiece, bremerholm 1962.
12. on the fine art of knowing when to be a backdrop. svanemølle 1966.
13. industrialized construction, a first response. svanemølle 1966.
14. concrete charm, bellahøj gas regulator 1967.
15. late irreverence. gasværksvejen school 1969.
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Everyone talks about how ugly our government buildings are, but I can't get enough of this aesthetic, especially in the winter.
A rather strange looking building just behind Kamakura beach, Japan.
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The ASU Art Museum, a mash-up of adobe and brutalism architecture.
Taking a walk around the Arizona State University campus 42 years after I first set foot here, finding both familiar and new sites.