Nicholas Thoburn

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Brutalism as Found: Housing, Form, and Crisis at Robin Hood GardensPaperback, 27 December 2022

Brutalism as Found: Housing, Form, and Crisis at Robin Hood Gardens
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Part of Series
Spatial Politics
Print Length
272 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Goldsmiths Press
Date Published
27 Dec 2022
ISBN-10
1913380041
ISBN-13
9781913380045

Description

A critical appropriation of Brutalism in the crisis conditions of today.

The Robin Hood Gardens public-housing estate in East London, completed in 1972, was designed by Alison and Peter Smithson as an ethical and aesthetic encounter with the flux and crises of the social world. Now demolished by the forces of speculative development, this Brutalist estate has been the subject of much dispute. But the clichéd terms of debate--a "concrete monstrosity" or a "modernist masterpiece"--have marginalized the estate's residents and obscured its architectural originality. Recovering the social in the architectural, this book centers the estate's lived experience of a multiracial working class, not to displace the architecture's sensory qualities of matter and form, but to radicalize them for our present.

Immersed in the materials, atmospheres, social forms and afterlives of this experimental estate, Robin Hood Gardens is reconstructed here as a socio-architectural expression of our times out of joint.

Product Details

Author:
Nicholas Thoburn
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
27 December 2022
Dimensions:
23.01 x 15.19 x 1.8 cm
ISBN-10:
1913380041
ISBN-13:
9781913380045
Language:
English
Pages:
272
Weight:
498.95 gm

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