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SOS Brutalism: A Global Survey
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SOS Brutalism: A Global Survey Hardcover - 2018

by Oliver Elser


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Widely disliked in their heyday and only recently beginning to be appreciated, brutalist buildings around the world are at risk of being lost--in many cases to demolition, and in some to insensitive reconstructions that would forever alter buildings' appearance beyond recognition. SOS Brutalism is a distress signal, an attempt to galvanize public awareness of the architectural heritage that is at risk of being forever lost. The book, result of a major collaborative research undertaking by Deutsches Architektur Museum DAM and Wstenrot Foundation, presents a global survey of brutalist architecture of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, covering around 120 key buildings from the period from around the world, many of them little-known and in imminent danger of destruction. Case studies of hotspots such as the Macedonian capital Skopje or New Haven, Connecticut, and essays on the history and theory of brutalism round out this groundbreaking and lavishly illustrated book.

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  • Title SOS Brutalism: A Global Survey
  • Author Oliver Elser
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Park Books
  • Date 2018-02
  • ISBN 9783038600756

About the author

Oliver Elser is a curator at Deutsches Architekturmuseum DAM in Frankfurt am Main. Philip Kurz is managing director of Wstenrot Foundation in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Peter Cachola Schmal is director of Deutsches Architekturmuseum DAM in Frankfurt am Main.
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by Philipp Kurz, Peter Cachola Schmal, Oliver Elser

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