Brutalism: A Selective Bibliography Compiled and updated by Aileen Smith, May 2011 This bibliography consists of a selective list of books and articles relating to Brutalism. Those books held within the AA Library are indicated with a shelfmark. Books (Alphabetically by title) A critic writes / essays by Reyner Banham; selected by Mary Banham, foreword by Peter Hall Berkeley ; London: University of California Press, 1996 ISBN 0520088557 (includes writings on Brutalism) AA SHELFMARK: 72:8-4 BAN As found: the discovery of the ordinary: British architecture and art of the 1950s / edited by Claude Lichtenstein, Thomas Schregenberger Lars Muller, 2001 ISBN 3907078438 (includes New Brutalism) AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036(42) LIC Brutalism: post-war British architecture / Alexander Clement 2011 ISBN 9781847972309 AA SHELFMARK: ON ORDER Crowood Press, Charged void: Architecture / Alison and Peter Smithson Press, 2001 ISBN 1580930506 AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(42):92SMI SMI Charged void: Urbanism / Alison and Peter Smithson Press, 2005 ISBN 1580931308 AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(42):92SMI SMI New York: Monacelli New York: Monacelli Denys Lasdun: architecture city landscape / William J Curtis London : Phaidon, 1994 ISBN 9780714828718 AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(42):92LAS CUR (MLC) Details of modern architecture vo.2: 1928 to 1988 / Edward R Ford Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996 (includes Louis Kahn, Sigurd Lewerentz, and the new Brutalism) AA SHELFMARK: 69.02:72.036 FOR James Stirling, buildings and projects 1950-1974 / with an introduction by John Jacobus London: Thames and Hudson, 1975 ISBN 0500340641 AA SHELFMARK:72.036(42):92STI JAC
Mediating modernism: architectural cultures in Britain / Andrew Higgott Oxford: Routledge, 2007 ISBN 9780415401777 AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(42) HIG Modernism without rhetoric: essays on the work of Alison and Peter Smithson: / Helena Webster London: Academy Editions, 1997 ISBN 9781854904959 AA SHELFMARK: 72.036:92SMI WEB National Theatre: the architectural review guide / edited by Colin Amery London: Architectural Press, 1977 AA SHELFMARK: 725.82(421) AME New brutalism: ethic or aesthetic? / Reyner Banham Press, 1966 AA SHELFMARK: 72.036 BAN Robin Hood Gardens: re-visions / edited by Alan Powers Century Society, 2010 ISBN 9780955668715 AA SHELFMARK: 728.1(421) POW London: Architectural London: Twentieth Without rhetoric: an architectural aesthetic 1995-1972 / Alison and Peter Smithson Cambridge, Mass. MIT PRESS, 1974 ISBN 0262191199 AA SHELFMARK: 72.01 SMI Articles (Chronologically by year and month) 2010 Inspiration Barbican, London; Architects: Chamberlin Powell & Bon Architects / article by Piers Gough (heroic and gutsy, the quintessence of brutalism) in Building Design no.1915 May 7, 2010 / p.12-15 Tough love: in defense of Brutalism / article by Michael Kubo, Mark Pasnik, and Chris Grimley in Architect (Washington, DC) vol.99 no.4 April 2010 / p.46, 48 Out of obscurity: Genex Towers, New Belgrade (Mihajio Mitrovic, 1970-1980) / article by Vesna Vucinic in A10 no.31 January/February 2010 / p.70
2009 Urban retrofitting / article by Francesca Picchi and others (includes Brutalist concrete buildings) in Domus no.926 June 2009 / p.65-84 (text in Italian+English) At the center of the storm / article by Bruce D Snider (calls to preserve Boston s City Hall and plaza (Kaufmann McKinnell & Knowles, 1969) in Preservation vol.61 no.2 March/April 2009 / p.24-29 2008 The brutal truth / article by Dwight Young in Preservation vol.60 no.6 November/December 2008 / p.72 New Brutalism, topology and image : some remarks on the architectural debates in England around 1950 in Journal of Architecture vol.13 no.3 June 2008 / p.263-281 A terrible battle with architecture : Denys Lasdun in the 1950s, part 2 / article by Barnabas Calder in ARQ: Architectural Research Quarterly vol.12 no.1 2008 / p.59-68 2007 The Goldfinger Project / article by Beatrice Galilee (explores social utopian ideology through the photography of Brutalist architecture) in Icon no.053 November 2007 / p.133 Betong [Concrete] / article by Adrian Forty and Claes Caldenby in Arkitektur (Stockholm) vol.107 no.5 September 2007 / p.14-31 (text in Swedish) 2006 Brutalism brutalised / article by Jane Pavitt in Blueprint no.244 July 2006 / p.29-30 Brutalismo en recuperacion [Brutalism reclaimed] / article by Asa Guerrerosantos in Arquine no.36 Summer 2006 / p.23
Embracing the brute: a much-reviled architectural style has its admirers / article by Anne Mathews in Preservation vol.58 no.3 May/June 2006 / p.40-41, 71 Brutalism exposed photography and the Zoom Wave / article by Hadas A Steiner in Journal of Architectural Education vol.59 no.3 February 2006 / p.15-27 2005 The nomenciature of style: brutalism, minimalism, art history and visual style in architecture journals / article by John Macarthur in Architectural Theory Review vol.10 no.2 2005 / p.100-108 2003 In memoriam: lessons in more Alison and Peter Smithson at Hunstanton / article by David Grandorge (a photo essay on Hunstanton School (1949-54), an icon of Brutalism designed by Alison and Peter Smithson) in Architecture Today no.137 April 2003 / p.30-34 2000 Peter Smithson after the rebellion / article by Liane Lefaivre (on brutalism) in Architecture (New York) vol.89 no.1 January 2000/ p. 51-53, p.143 1999 Modernism s second wind / article by Lesley Jackson (on the conference held at the Museum of London From Brutalism to beanbags - architecture, design & lifestyle in 1970s Britain ) in Building Design no.1391 April 16, 1999 / p.9 Were the 1970s really the decade that style forgot? / article by Ruth Slavid and Kenneth Powell ( From Brutalism to beanbags architecture, design & lifestyle in 1970s Britain conference) in Architects Journal vol.209 no.15 April 15, 1999 / p.22
1998 Glossing with graininess: cross occupations in postwar British film and architecture / article by Katherine Shonfield (focuses on the fate of two rival architectural aesthetics, the picturesque and Brutalism) in Journal of Architecture vol.3 no.4 Winter 1998 / p.355-375 1997 Brutalismo Paulista: o discurso e a obra [Brutalism in Sao Paulo: discussion and the work] / article by Maria Luiza Adams Sanvitto in Projeto Design no.207 April 1997 / p.92-97 1995 Ism: Brutalism / article by Richard Wilcock in Archetype (London) October 1995 / p.38-39 Building with liquid rock / article by Timothy Ostler in World Architecture no.34 1995 / p.92-95 1994 Butterfield and Brutalism / article by Elain Harwood in AA Files no.27 Summer 1994 / p.39-46 Peter Rice, poeta del Brutalismo [Peter Rice, poet of Brutalism] / article by Alessandro Rocca in Lotus International no.78 1993 / p.6-39 (text in Italian+ English) 1993 Big Jim s legacy: from Brutalism to Neo-Rationalism / article by Peter Buchanan in A&V Monografias no.42 July-August 1993 (special issue on James Stirling) / p.14-21 (text in Spanish, English summaries) 1988 La arquitectura de la tercera generacion (I) [Architecture of the third generation (I) / arilce by Josep Maria Montaner (includes New Brutalism and Urban Structuring: post war British architecture ) in El Croquis vol.7 no.3 (35) August-September 1988 / p.4-28
Masters of building: Sigurd Lewerentz. From Classicism to Brutalism; the missing years / article by Colin St John Wilson, and Edward Williams in Architects Journal vol.187 no.15 April 13, 1988 / p.32-52 1985 The New Brutalism / article by Tim Ostler in RIBA Journal vol.92 no.12 December 1985 / p.15, 17 Brutalismo cabocio e as residencias paulistas [Native brutalism and Sao Paulo residences] / article by Marlene Milan Acayaba in Projeto no.73 March 1985 / p.46-48 (text in Portuguese) 1982 Multi-use building in Viareggio: refined brutalism for a model of urban use; Architects: Remo Nocchi in Architettura, Cronache e Storia vol.28 no.12 (326) December 1982 / p.838-841 1979 Brutalism cromaticism: four works by Leo Salvotti 1. Family house in Meano; 2. Housing in via Buonarroti, Trento; 3. Housing in piazza S Pellico in Trento; 4. Housing in Mazzin di Fassa; Architect Leo Salvotti in Architettura Cronache e Storia vol.25 no.2 (280) February 1979 / p.88-97 (text in Italian, English summary) 1978 Brutalism in Sicily 3. Car body repair shop in Palermo; Architects: Cesaro De Francisci / article by Renato Pedio in Architettura Cronache e Storia vol.24 no.3 (273) July 1978 / p.162-163 Brutalism in Sicily: 2. House at Santa Ninfa, Palermo; Architect: Cesare De Francisci / article by Renato Pedio in Architettura Cronache e Storia vol.24 no.3 (273) July 1978 / p.159-161 (text in Italian, English summary)
Brutalism in Sicily: 1. Villa in the hills, Mondelli, Palermo; Architect: Cesare De Francisci / article by Renato Pedio in Architettura Cronache e Storia vol.24 no.3 (273) July 1978 / p.156-158 (text in Italian, English summary) 1975 Sao Paolo Museum of Art: new brutalism of the southern hemisphere; Architect: Lina Bo Bardi in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism vol.5 no.6 (54) June 1975 / p.51-66 (text in Japanese, English summary) 1974 Brutalism / article by Borislav Stoyanov in Architectura no.2 1974 / p.32-37 (text in Bulgarian, English summary) 1968 English brutalism: selected writings in Zodiac no.18 1968 / p. 42-50 Phoenix brutalism / article by F Tentori in Zodiac no.18 1968 / p.30-41 1966 The new brutalism / article by Alison and Peter Smithson in Arkitektur (Stockholm) December 28, 1966 / p.1590-1591 Architectural brutalism / article by N O Lund in Arkitekten (Copenhagen) no.26 1966 / p.542-554 1964 New brutalism / article by J Joedicke in Bauen & Wohnen no.11 1964 / p.421-425
1960 A parable via Milano and Roma / article by John Burchard (part II of a critical discussion on contemporary Italian architecture, and in particular Italian Brutalism ) in Architectural Record August 1960 / p.157-164 1955 The New Brutalism / article by Reyner Banham in Architectural Review December 1955 / p.855-861 Three approaches to architecture by three recent buildings, including The New Brutalism (secondary school, Hunstanton; Architects: Alison & Peter Smithson) in Architectural Forum May 1955 / p.142-153 Compiled by Aileen Smith, Deputy Librarian May 2011