# Brutalism

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Category: Architecture
Slides: 31
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:17:19.743Z
Tags: architecture, brutalism

## Summary

Brutalism is the most aggressively unloved style in the history of modern architecture, and also one of the most photographed. Half its buildings have been demolished or scheduled for it. The other half are listed monuments and Instagram backdrops. Key sections include: Brut alism.; Opening The case for concrete.; Chapter I What it is.; Chapter II The Unité.; Chapter III Alison and Peter Smithson.; Chapter IV Trellick Tower.; Chapter V The Barbican.; Chapter VI Boston City Hall.; Chapter VII Safdie's Habitat.; Chapter VIII The civic monuments..

## Slide Outline

1. Brut alism.
2. Opening The case for concrete.
3. Chapter I What it is.
4. Chapter II The Unité.
5. Chapter III Alison and Peter Smithson.
6. Chapter IV Trellick Tower.
7. Chapter V The Barbican.
8. Chapter VI Boston City Hall.
9. Chapter VII Safdie's Habitat.
10. Chapter VIII The civic monuments.
11. Chapter IX Socialist concrete.
12. Chapter X Brutalism in the tropics.
13. Chapter XI The British case.
14. Chapter XII The material.
15. Chapter XIII The collapse.
16. Chapter XIV The roll of the lost.
17. Chapter XV The 21st-century revival.
18. Chapter XVI The new concrete.
19. Chapter XVII The capital.
20. Chapter XVIII American brutalism.
21. Chapter XIX Brutalism on film.
22. Chapter XX Was it good architecture.
23. Chapter XXI The preservation problem.
24. Chapter XXII The library.
25. Chapter XXIII Watch & read.
26. Chapter XXIV The pilgrimage.
27. Chapter XXV The neo-brutalist confusion.
28. Chapter XXVI What's still unresolved.
29. Chapter XXVII Why it matters.
30. Chapter XXVIII The next chapter.
31. The end of the deck.

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