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Brutalism’s message may be lost as it gets a revival European CEO
To showcase Central and Eastern Europe 's "unnoticed" brutalist architecture, Zupagrafika have shot and put together more than 100 photographs in a book titled 'Eastern Blocks', inviting.
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Perhaps Eastern Europe's most tongue-in-cheek Communist-era construction is at Romania's Vidraru Dam, where a 10m statue of Prometheus (the man who stole fire from the gods) commemorates one of the Communist Bloc's biggest hydroelectricity projects. The imposing Vidraru Dam in Romania. Photo by Brent Winebrenner
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The tower is one of the most significant examples of brutalism - an architectural style popular in the 1950s and 1960s, based on crude, block-like forms cast from concrete. Genex Tower, also.
20 Stunning Brutalist Architecture in Eastern Europe Architettura
In Eastern Europe there are numerous buildings presenting this style, now we will focus on five examples to better understand the common ground despite the territorial, cultural and designer differences that created them.
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The visual aspects of Brutalism quickly evolved into a consistent style—massive, elaborate concrete structures that embraced their size, verticality, and building material. As Barbara A. Campagna explains, The use of concrete and steel allowed the biggest buildings and complexes ever envisioned to be built.
10 EyeCatching Brutalist Architecture Works in Europe Spotted by Locals
In Eastern Europe, Brutalist buildings face particular challenges in winning advocates, according to Marie Kordovská. She is fighting to save the Hotel Thermal in the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary.
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Brutalist architecture is a movement that flourished from the 1950s to the mid-1970s, and was adopted widely throughout Eastern Europe. It is characterized by a bold and confrontational style that combines concrete and rough surfaces, intended to express the roughness of life. The term brutalism originates from the French term for raw concrete.
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The Cantilever City Brutalist Architecture in (Soviet) Cinema Vol. 113 (March 2021) by Esen Gökçe Özdamar Brutalist architecture prevailed in post-war England in the 1950s and spread, during the 1960s and 1970s, to Asia, North America and the Soviet bloc.
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In the United Kingdom, brutalism was featured in the design of utilitarian, low-cost social housing influenced by socialist principles and soon spread to other regions around the world, most notably Eastern Europe.
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An architecture of self-interrogation in Europe and of proud defiance in postcolonial equatorial nations never sat comfortably with America's capitalist triumphalism. For many critics, Brutalism.
Brutalist Architecture in (Soviet) Cinema East European Film Bulletin
Much of the brutalist architecture of eastern Europe is decrepit, but now a project aims to document and preserve it Naomi Larsson Mon 6 Aug 2018 07.47 EDT T he monumental but decaying.
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The New York Museum of Modern Art dedicated an exhibition to photographs to Brutalist architecture in 2018, in effect rehabilitating a style of building that many would rather see disappear.
Soviet Brutalist buildings from the mid20th century Business Insider
At one end of the spectrum we have the concrete monstrosities that litter the cityscapes of many Central and Eastern European countries, erected in uniform, pre-fabricated rows to house the populace while said countries were behind the Iron Curtain under strict Soviet control.
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Whilst emerging into prominence in 1950s Great Britain, the most iconic examples of this architectural style are arguably found in Eastern Europe - particularly in the territory formerly known.
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The brutalist buildings found in Eastern Europe were a way of showing off, and Bratislava became the symbol of this notion. The results? Some outstanding and strange-looking buildings, such as this upside-down pyramid-shaped Radio Station, Slovak Radio. The building highlights the Bratislava skyline but is still very much overlooked by tourists.
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Like much Brutalist architecture, this bold design represents an update on the famous axiom of architectural modernism that form should follow function.. In the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc (those countries in Eastern Europe emerged as soviet vassal states after the Second World War, with communist rulers heavily influenced by the USSR.
