Brutalism as Found: Housing, Form, and Crisis at Robin Hood Gardens by Nicholas

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A critical appropriation of Brutalism in the crisis conditions of today.The Robin Hood Gardens public-housing estate in East London, completed in 1972, was designed by Alison and Peter Smithson as an ethical and aesthetic encounter with the flux and crises of the social world. Now demolished by the forces of speculative development, this Brutalist estate has been the subject of much dispute. But the cliched terms of debate-a "concrete monstrosity" or a "modernist masterpiece"-have marginalized the estate's residents and obscured its architectural originality. Recovering the social in the architectural, this book centers the estate's lived experience of a multiracial working class, not to displace the architecture's sensory qualities of matter and form, but to radicalize them for our present.Immersed in the materials, atmospheres, social forms and afterlives of this experimental estate, Robin Hood Gardens is reconstructed here as a socio-architectural expression of our times out of joint.

FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Author Biography

Nicholas Thoburn is Reader in Sociology at the University of Manchester. He has published widely on cultural theory, political publishing, social movements, and architecture. His previous books include Deleuze, Marx and Politics and Anti-Book- On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing.

Details ISBN1913380041 Author Nicholas Thoburn Short Title Brutalism As Found Pages 224 Series Spatial Politics Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1913380041 ISBN-13 9781913380045 Format Paperback Publication Date 2022-11-15 Subtitle Housing, Form, and Crisis at Robin Hood Gardens Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2022-11-15 NZ Release Date 2022-11-15 UK Release Date 2022-11-15 Illustrations 30 black and white illustrations Imprint Goldsmith's Press DEWEY 728.31409421 Audience General Publisher Goldsmiths, University of London We've got this

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