Off the Béton Track
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
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
Kharkiv 2024: What Now?
18th February 2024
Gingerbread City at the Museum of Architecture; How buildings made of sugar and spice help us understand the challenges ahead
2nd December 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
Richard Davis’ Backstage Pass to Madchester’s Cultural Explosion
8th June 2023
Eileen Gray’s Villa E-1027
Look at the near-forgotten architect who aroused Le Corbusier’s envy
4th July 2018
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
At First Ignored and Now Lost, London’s Welbeck Street Car Park
13th November 2017
Exploring Photographer Philippe Calandre’s Chimeric Cityscapes
19th May 2023
A retro-futurist vision, Hatoya Hotel, Itō, Shizuoka
2nd May 2021
Burkina Faso: Visiting Ouagadougou
Where a roundabout becomes home to a ready to launch post-colonial rocket
18th February 2019
Communist Border Signs or How To Make the Road Your Destination
8th October 2019
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
Haus Schminke Löbau’s Glorious Modernist ‘Noodle Steamer’
28th February 2022
Will the redevelopment of Cumbernauld Town Centre be another case of Fire and Forget
16th March 2022
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
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
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
Okinawa: Where Brutalism Becomes Zen
27th June 2020
Claude Parent; Curating the legacy of a visionary architect
14th October 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
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
Jo’s Art History Podcast with Greyscape | The Barbican Living in an Architectural Experiment
1st June 2021
New Brutalists’ “Japanese” Pavilions: The Smithsons and Theo Crosby
27th April 2021
Shining a light on Slovakian Architectural heritage, Čierne diery
15th April 2021
Negozio Olivetti by Carlo Scarpa: Adriano Olivetti a man with a vision who worked to ensure that it was hardwired into his company.
26th March 2021
Its music to the ears of fans of brutalist architecture, Les Orgues de Flandre now has its deserved protected status.
8th April 2021
Journey into the heart of German Modernism with Anael Berkovitz
21st March 2022
District 11 Budapest: Kelenföld, reimagining a dormitory district
9th March 2021
Spomeniks – a heroic and terrible history caught in concrete
23rd February 2021
A window of opportunity
6th March 2021
Banjica Бањица, neighbourhood, Belgrade, Serbia
11th February 2021
The Tomba Brion Cemetery: Inside Carlo Scarpa’s Last Great Concrete Masterpiece
4th February 2021
Chamberlin, Powell and Bon’s other spot; Vanbrugh Park
10th July 2019
A San Diego Story
14th January 2021
How an earthquake brought Kenzo Tange to Skopje
13th January 2021
Sam Kerridge: Processing Cityscapes, grab your camera and follow the geotags
5th December 2020
#TheViewFromMyWindowPhotoProject
A Global Photo Project Documenting Self-Isolation In The Age Of Covid-19
7th November 2020
Plattenbauten: Behind the Facade
5th October 2020
Singer-songwriter Genevieve offers a Dreamy insiders view from the 42nd floor of the Barbican
10th November 2020
#SOSBrutalism: Saving Beloved Concrete Monsters
15th July 2020
Explore The Former Soviet Union With An Exclusive GreyScape – Soviet ★ Tours – Curated Visit
15th March 2020
A Journey through Modernist Architecture in the former Yugoslavia
28th February 2020
Sense of Now
Beyond the highway
13th February 2020
Liebling Haus Tel Aviv
Modernism in the White City
30th January 2020
Créteil’s concrete petals in the eyes of a visitor
30th October 2019
Night photography. Recording a city against a velvet blue backdrop
19th October 2019
Off the béton track: The Barbican Archive Residency: 19-20 October 2019
10th October 2019
Why The Brutalism Appreciation Society’s Murray Tompsett Had To Visit Bobigny and Beyond
14th June 2019
Hotel Thermal, Věra Machoninová and Vladimir Machonin’s important brutalist building
6th June 2019
Bloki: Poland’s Architecture Journey Through Communism: From interwar years Modernism to communist bloki through a photographers lens
13th April 2019
Kaliningrad’s House of the Soviets, the Unintended Brutalist Monument to the USSR
Unfinished but not unloved.
6th April 2019
In the words of RIBA ‘India’s Greatest Architect’ Charles Correa
6th March 2019
Robin Hood Gardens
Why the V&A took an unprecedented step
13th November 2017
Kenzo Tange, A Man With A Plan
Japan’s post war brutalist visitor favourite still suspends belief
13th November 2017
Berlin: A Magnificent Architectural Journey
A key city in Europe that has regularly been remade.
8th July 2017
