Brutalist Belgrade
Dream destination for brutalist architecture fans
5th October 2019
Eileen Gray’s Villa E-1027
Look at the near-forgotten architect who aroused Le Corbusier’s envy
4th July 2018
Ernö Goldfinger’s Forgotten Nursery: A Modernist Vision for Childhood
27th February 2025
New Brutalists’ “Japanese” Pavilions: The Smithsons and Theo Crosby
27th April 2021
Babyn Yar Synagogue, ‘The architectural response to the Holocaust’, architect Manuel Herz observes, ‘has been concrete and stone, as if the architecture has to be as heavy as the crime’.
2nd March 2022
The Values of The Brutalist, concrete giants, European legacy in a new land
18th January 2025
Concrete Menageries: why were zoos drawn to modernist design?
23rd November 2024
Three Titans of Viennese Modernism
24th August 2024
The Concrete Menagerie: Tecton at Dudley Zoo
4th August 2024
Aylesbury Estate In Three Pieces
15th June 2024
The Fading Reminders of Soviet Modernism in Central Asia
8th November 2019
Vladimir 518: Rethinking Architectural Narratives in Czech Architecture 1958 -1989
31st May 2024
‘Opposite Places, Common Traces’ at the Barbican
29th May 2024
We’ve a winner! Greyscape Photo Competition
6th June 2024
London Wall West, IMPORTANT UPDATE
A lot of voices were heard – but weren’t listened to – NEWS UPDATE.
23rd October 2022
Walden 7, Visiting A Little Piece of Utopian
How a 1948 book inspired a generation
15th October 2018
Bolwoningen Sphere Houses
Dries Kreijkamp, Dutch Architect who mused, “We all live on a sphere, so why not in a sphere?”
30th October 2018
London Estates; Modernist Council Housing 1946 – 1981
3rd March 2024
Kaufmann Desert House; an iconic setting for poolside gossip
13th January 2024
Is Modernism Antiquated?
5th January 2024
Kharkiv 2024: What Now?
18th February 2024
Capturing Modernist India with John Gollings
21st February 2020
Sunseekers: The Immigrant Architects That Created Hippie California
The Making of Lovell Health House
22nd November 2020
Gingerbread City at the Museum of Architecture; How buildings made of sugar and spice help us understand the challenges ahead
2nd December 2023
New Khmer Architecture: The work of Vann Molyvann
3rd August 2022
John Walmsley: ‘photographing ordinary people and the interesting things they do’
16th November 2023
The Fiat car company and its founders the Agnelli family are the perfect medium to understand the development of Italian politics, industry and design in the 20th Century.
30th June 2021
A sneak peak at Lovell Health House
24th May 2021
Harry Seidler, the Man Who Shaped Modernism
29th June 2023
Ray and Charles Eames: A Partnership Of Equals
20th June 2020
Richard Davis’ Backstage Pass to Madchester’s Cultural Explosion
8th June 2023
The 1936 Modernist wing of the German Hospital in Hackney
A story of the best and the worst of the 20th Century
28th December 2018
Lea Lund and Erik K, ‘a story about love, a photographer finding her muse and a subject claiming his identity’
1st September 2023
My Brutal Life Transmitting the Power of Art
13th October 2023
Erich Mendelsohn’s Einsteinturm
5th June 2023
Calvin Seibert Builds Architectural Sandcastles
22nd August 2020
Villa Winternitz, Adolf Loos Raumplan
10th August 2023
Prague, Löbau and back again; Greyscape on the Road
24th July 2023
The Cloud Towers, Nanterre’s Tours Nuages
27th September 2019
Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain, a British Modernist Masterpiece; home to Agatha Christie, spies and centre of an intellectual circle
24th February 2019
The Inspiring Fight On The Ground To Save Berlin’s At-Risk Brutalism
27th May 2020
At First Ignored and Now Lost, London’s Welbeck Street Car Park
13th November 2017
London’s Czech Embassy – Brutalist and Proud
6th November 2021
Exploring Photographer Philippe Calandre’s Chimeric Cityscapes
19th May 2023
A retro-futurist vision, Hatoya Hotel, Itō, Shizuoka
2nd May 2021
Antwerp Port House
There is a scene in Sci-Fi movies when a vast alien spaceship breaks through the clouds descends to effortlessly hover over a city.
13th November 2017
Verner Panton, the Danish architect and designer who took a generation on a psychedelic trip
29th October 2021
Palazzo di Giustizia di Matera
11th May 2022
Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack: More Than A Bauhaus Artist. One of Modernist Germany’s most influential artists
14th August 2022
Burkina Faso: Visiting Ouagadougou
Where a roundabout becomes home to a ready to launch post-colonial rocket
18th February 2019
Galerie Berinson and the Emergence of Modern Photography
21st April 2021
Camino Real Polanco, Mexico City
Uncompromising, bold colours, in-your-face geometry and the brilliant use of natural light
17th September 2021
Imagine a republic in a spherical house located on a small hill.
There you have it, a kugel on a mugel.
17th January 2019
A must-have book, ‘Walter Gropius: An Illustrated Biography by Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund
14th November 2022
Communist Border Signs or How To Make the Road Your Destination
8th October 2019
Book Publishing under Fire – Osnovy, publishing books in Kyiv
30th August 2022
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
8th March 2023
David Hoffman ‘the riot photographer’s riot photographer’
2nd November 2022
Slovak Radio Building, Bratislava: An antidote to Social Realism
7th September 2022
Barbican Open Air Cinema, Daughters of the Dust -Beyonce’s inspiration
29th August 2022
Thinking outside the Box: The demolition of the Nakagin Capsule Tower and its possible reconstruction in the metaverse
18th August 2022
Haus Schminke Löbau’s Glorious Modernist ‘Noodle Steamer’
28th February 2022
Looking back Looking forward: What has been lost and what can still be saved
31st December 2021
Kharkiv 2022: What shall we do with these buildings?
30th April 2022
The Graphic History Of The British Music Scene (One Sleeve At A Time)
20th April 2022
Reclaiming Public Space WXSP: One of the best reasons to take a detour if you are heading over to the Barbican this weekend
5th July 2022
Brazilian architect Lelé’s big bold vision, Centro Administrativo de Bahia Salvador Brazil
5th April 2022
Platinum Jubilee Flypast Over the Barbican
2nd June 2022
Will the redevelopment of Cumbernauld Town Centre be another case of Fire and Forget
16th March 2022
The Barbican Centre, Happy Happy
3rd March 2022
Chernobyl, the tragedy continues
23rd September 2020
Villa Kaplansky Antwerp
17th March 2021
Getting Fired Up; The work of Ceramicist and Artist Xavier Monsalvatje
8th February 2022
Warsaw, packed with architectural gems. Lets walk and talk with photographer Artur Bednarczyk, blok by blok.
6th January 2022
Haludovo Palace Hotel, Croatia:
Penthouse Magazine founder Bob Guccione had one hell of a party on the island of Krk which came with a $45 million dollar price tag.
12th August 2021
A temporary city has sprung up in London made entirely from Gingerbread
8th December 2022
Modernism Was Framed: The Truth About Pruitt-Igoe
28th October 2020
Bofill’s La Muralla Roja, a Spanish Bastion, what better way to remember Ricardo Bofill
19th June 2020
A pitstop in Arcosanti, Arizona’s experimental proto society with Calvin Seibert
7th January 2022
Concrete and Clay, Unit Four Plus Two, the Barbican’s First Music Video Unit Four Plus Two
29th December 2019
Virtual Tour of the Czech and Slovak Embassies in London | Brutal Beauty
12th June 2021
2020 Vision: An Interview with Gérard Grandval: In honour of Grandval’s work we publish, again, this interview with the great architect and artist.
4th January 2020
Nostalgia for the Future: Indian Modernism
11th June 2021
Okinawa: Where Brutalism Becomes Zen
27th June 2020
Social Condensers – changing society through architecture
23rd September 2021
Claude Parent; Curating the legacy of a visionary architect
14th October 2021
Exposing the real and raw face of Bucharest
8th October 2021
‘Thinking Forward Through the Past’
20th September 2021
If you have a hankering to experience the vigour, invention and imagination of world-class street art a short walk from the Barbican Centre then head for Whitecross Street.
11th September 2021
Haus Marlene Poelzig: Why erasing women from architecture history is such a bad idea
3rd September 2021
Sasha Braulov and the Inspiration of Constructivism
Recreating the monumental forms of modernist buildings in traditional needlework techniques.
13th August 2021
Interview with Barnabas Calder:
Barnabas Calder (Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism) now, in Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency? has written an aeon spanning architectural history that encompasses architecture’s role in causing and solving the crisis
24th July 2021
Futuro House: If you spotted a Futuro Pod in need of some serious care, could you just walk on by?
4th June 2021
High and Over Britain’s First Modernist Country House
30th June 2021
Remembering Gottfried Böhm whose 100th birthday was celebrated in 2020 with the exhibition: The Concrete Cathedral of Neviges.
29th September 2020
Urbex: The Accidental Obsession of Modern Architecture Lovers |Why is Notre-Dame the latest subject for Urbex?
20th April 2019
Venice Biennale Architecture 2021 asks How will we live together?
23rd May 2021
Jordane Saget is leaving his mark on Paris
1st April 2021
Othernity – Reconditioning Our Modern Heritage, the Hungarian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
11th May 2021
The Garden of Privatised Delights: The British Pavilion, Venice Biennale Architettura 2021
20th May 2021
