- SKU: 9781914613883
- BARCODE: 9781914613883
- VENDOR: BooksCloud
Brutal Scotland - Hardcover
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Description
by Simon Phipps (Author)
Brilliantly designed and beautifully produced, Simon Phipps' major new book - arguably his richest collection of architecture since Brutal London - is a celebration of Scotland's best Brutalist and Modernist buildings.
From the Peter Womersley's cinematically brilliant Bernat Klein Design Studio set on the edge of birch woods in the Borders to the innovative, liveable Langside Housing Estate in Shawlands, Glasgow (originally designed by Derek Stephenson and Partners), there is a wealth of architectural aspiration and inspiration these pages. Capturing a half century in which architecture reached, however perfectly or imperfectly, for solutions for the public's good this is an epic journey through a nation's period of reimagining.
As some of these buildings fall into neglected disrepair this is an urgent reconsideration of an era when architects, planners and councils of the period were reaching for a new architectural language, in a period of public investment.
Author Biography
Simon Phipps is an artist based in London. Born in Leeds, he studied fine art in Newport and Caerleon and is a graduate in sculpture from the Royal College of Art. An acclaimed photographer of post-war modernist architecture. He is the author of six books: Brutal London, Finding Brutalism, Concrete Poetry: Post-War Modernist Public Art, Brutal North: Post-War Modernist Architecture in the North of England, Brutal Outer London and Brutal Wales Cymru Friwtalaidd. Finding Brutalism was a winner of the 2018 DAM Architectural Book Award and a bronze medalist in the 2018 German Photobook Award. Brutal London was a finalist for the British Book and Production Awards 2017. Brutal Outer London was shortlisted for the 2023 Architecture Book of the Year Award. @new_brutalism.
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