Tag: Brutalism
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BBC Brutalism
BBC’s The Game Does for Brutalism What Mad Men Did for Mid-Century Design CityLab, Dec. 12, 2014 If you’re a fan of spy thrillers, you’ll enjoy BBC America’s miniseries The Game the way you might a dog-eared novel and a cup of tea on a winter’s night. The pace is leisurely, and the plot elements familiar…
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The Mechanic Theatre and Brutalism’s imperiled legacy
Today over at Architect magazine, I write about the convoluted and still unresolved saga of the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre, an important Brutalist structure designed by John M. Johansen. A member of the Harvard Five (along with Marcel Breuer, Philip Johnson, Eliot Noyes, and Landis Gores), Johansen was a protege of Walter Gropius who married…
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