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Oliver Elser, Philip Kurz, Peter
Cachola Schmal (eds)
SOS Brutalism
A Global Survey
In cooperation with Deutsches
Architekturmuseum DAM and
Wüstenrot Foundation
2017. Hardback with paperback
supplement
716 pages in total, 686 color and
411 b/w illustrations
22.5 × 27.5 cm (8½ × 10½ in)
978-3-03860-075-6 English
sFr. 69.00 | € 68.00
£ 60.00 | $ 69.00
The first-ever global survey of brutalist architecture from the
1950s to the 1970s, documenting some 120 key buildings from
this period in twelve regions around the world, including many
previously unpublished discoveries that are in acute danger of
loss through neglect of intended demolition. Moreover, the book
features case studies of brutalist hotspots as well as topical essays
on the history and theory of brutalism.
Hilar Stadler, Andreas Hertach
(eds)
Simon Phipps Finding
Brutalism
A Photographic Survey of Post-War
British Architecture
In cooperation with Museum im
Bellpark, Kriens
2017. Hardback
258 pages, 10 color, 192 duotones,
and 28 b/w illustrations
20 × 25.5 cm (7¾ × 10 in)
978-3-03860-063-3 English
978-3-03860-064-0 German
sFr. 39.00 | € 32.00
£ 32.00 | $ 39.00
For almost twenty years, British photographer Simon Phipps
has been documenting the rebuilding of Britain after the Second
World War through the work of architects. This book features
192 of his images of 127 buildings in England, Scotland, and
Northern Ireland from the 1950s to the 1980s, creating a confrontation
of buildings and architectural fragments and evoking
a distinct atmosphere of brutalism.
Marianne Burkhalter, Christian
Sumi (eds)
Konrad Wachsmann and the
Grapevine Structure
2018. Flexicover
152 pages, 91 color, 50 duotones,
and 40 b/w illustrations
23 × 32 cm (9 × 12½ in)
978-3-03860-110-4 English
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00
£ 45.00 | $ 49.00
This book sheds new light on the work of German-born modernist
architect Konrad Wachsmann (1901–1980) and his legendary
dynamic Grapevine Structure, a universal construction
element he developed in the early 1950s at the Chicago Institute
of Design. Richly illustrated, the book features essays revisiting
Wachsmann’s ideas from a contemporary perspective and exploring
the phenomenon of knotted joints in comparison with
similar structures in the human brain.
Irénée Scalbert
A Real Living Contact with
the Things Themselves
Essays on Architecture
2018. Paperback
312 pages, 39 color and
59 b/w illustrations
16.5 × 21.5 cm (6½ × 8½ in)
978-3-03860-111-1 English
sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00
£ 25.00 | $ 35.00
Contemporary architectural criticism tends to focus on the theories
and concepts behind buildings. Yet there is much to be
learned by venturing beyond the library walls to contemplate
the real buildings: the things themselves. This urge for “real
living contact” is the impetus behind this inspiring collection
of essays by renowned British architectural critic and scholar
Irénée Scalbert.