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Description: Brutalism As Found : Housing, Form, and Crisis at Robin Hood Gardens, Paperback by Thoburn, Nicholas, ISBN 1913380041, ISBN-13 9781913380045, Brand New, Free shipping in the US A critical appropriation of Brutalism in the crisis conditions of today. A study of the Robin Hood Gardens housing estate in east London, this book critically appropriates Brutalism under the crisis conditions of today. Immersed in the materials, atmospheres, social forms, and afterlives of this extraordinary estate, here Brutalism is wrested from today’s privatizing tastes for “raw concrete” and nostalgia for the post-war class settlement.   The only mass-housing scheme by New Brutalist pioneers Alison and Peter Smithson, Robin Hood Gardens has been the object of much dispute. But the clichéd terms of discussion—is it a “concrete monstrosity” or a “modernist masterpiece”?—have marginalized the estate’s residents and masked the role of the housing crisis and revanchist urbanism in its demolition. Breaking with these narratives, Brutalism as Found centers the estate’s lived experience by a multiethnic working class, not to displace the architecture’s experimental qualities of matter and form, but to radicalize them for our present.   Grasping the estate’s architecture in its originality and complexity, th enlists the Smithsons’ methodology of the “as found.” Here architecture cleaves to the world as it is, its flux and crises brought to light as integral to architectural expression. The result at Robin Hood Gardens is a topological architecture of interlaced and divergent forms, forms that deform themselves and their site and society too. Interleaving architectural analysis, social critique, lived testimony, portrait photography, and critical theory, this ground-breaking book reconstructs Robin Hood Gardens as a socio-architectural expression of our time out of joint.

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Book Title: Brutalism As Found : Housing, Form, and Crisis at Robin Hood Gardens

Number of Pages: 272 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Goldsmiths, University London

Topic: History / Contemporary (1945-), Buildings / Residential, Individual Architects & Firms / General, General

Publication Year: 2022

Item Height: 0.7 in

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Architecture

Item Weight: 17.3 Oz

Author: Nicholas Thoburn

Item Length: 9.3 in

Item Width: 6.2 in

Book Series: Spatial Politics Ser.

Format: Trade Paperback

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