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Boston City Hall by Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles/Campbell, Aldrich & Nulty, as seen at SOS Brutalism - Save the Concrete Monsters, Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt
Architecture | 08.11.2017

SOS Brutalism - Save the Concrete Monsters @ the Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt

Architects are always very keen to stress how they are working in the interests of society, for society. Often selflessly so. Yet little polarises society quite like architecture. And no architecture polarises quite like Brutalism. Whereas in discourses on other architectural genres the middle ground is a place where those of moderate opinions can meet objectively and attempt to approach one another's position: there are no Brutalism moderates. With the exhibition SOS Brutalism - Save the

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