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Greyscape celebrates Brutalist, Modernist and Constructivist architecture. We bring you a carefully considered edit of the best examples of those designs from around the world.

Greyscape was born out of a passion for under-appreciated 20th Century design. Originally launched in 2016 as a passion project an Instagram account, our audience grew fast, with thousands sharing a similar interest in game-changing buildings. We now have an unrivalled position as a crowdsourced archive of little and well-known architecture. Greyscape is a destination where everyone can learn, share and interact with the very best in Brutalism, Modernist and Constructivist design.

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World on a wire ... can there be a more apt film title for ‘now’ Over on our live story we are celebrating architecture in German film. Got a suggestion and soundtracks are cool too. We’re loading up and tagging. Back to this: thank you @imdb for the image and cast+production details. What a stunning poster - the theme (thank you @imdb ) “Somewhere in the future there is a computer project called Simulacron one of which is able to simulate a full featured reality, when suddenly project leader Henry Vollmer dies. His successor Dr. Fred Stiller experiences odd phenomena. A good friend, Guenther Lause, disappears in the middle of a conversation and a week later nobody has ever heard of him. And those fits of dizzyness - Stiller cannot believe himself to be fool. There has to be an explanation for all this. Could Simulacron have something to do with it? Author Oliver Heidelbach. 🔥🔥Well we clearly have to see this film 🔥🔥

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Award winning, Australian national treasure, Rose

Award winning, Australian national treasure, Rose Seidler House built by Harry Seidler for his parents- 1948-50. It was an immediate success, today a protected heritage site. Located in Wahroonga, a suburb of Sydney, it was Seidler’s first Australian design. Viennese Jewish by birth & later an Australian citizen (with a Canadian detour) 15-year-old Harry was sent by his parents to England after Anschluss. His studies in Cambridgeshire cut short when war broke out a year later. By now classed as an adult and an ‘enemy alien’ regardless that he was clearly not a threat. Interned on the Isle of Mann & then in Canada, later in life he published his diary about this difficult period of great uncertainty, a combination of words and images which is today housed in the State Library of NSW. There was ultimately a good outcome when he, along with fellow refugees had their status changed to Friendly Alien. He remained in Canada and studied architecture. His Bauhaus encounter came in ‘46 when he was awarded a Harvard scholarship, studying under Gropius and Breuer (who also employed him in New York). Contemporaries included IM Pei & Paul Rudolph. Harry emigrated to Australia to reunite with his parents who had arrived in ‘46 and to accept a commission from his parents to build their first house. Travelling via Brazil, he briefly worked for Niemeyer. The home ‘Rose Seidler House’ helped put Modernism on the map in Australia. A founding member of the Australian Architecture Association, designer of Australia Square (with Pier Luigi Nervi) & many other buildings. Seidler was known to be unafraid to share his views on urban planning, his vision of a suburb differed from local councillors. A divider, in his obituary art critic Robert Hughes complained about the ‘Seidlerisation of Sydney’. His buildings, which we would describe as brutalist, were not all appreciated either however how can one not love his Australian Embassy in Paris (together with Breuer) a magnificent brutalist building? The recipient of stellar international awards, Seidler was considered a huge influence. Photo with thanks to Anna Lisa Capurro @ms.modernism (see the next post for the deck which is simply 💛)

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