The Brutalists Brutalism’s Best Architects

The Brutalists: Brutalism’s Best Architects by Owen Hopkins is a comprehensive survey of the architects who created the most controversial and compelling buildings of the postwar era — the designers of the raw concrete structures that defined urban landscapes from London to São Paulo, from Moscow to Boston. Hopkins profiles the key figures — Marcel Breuer, Paul Rudolph, Denys Lasdun, and their contemporaries — examining each architect’s philosophy, their major works, and the social and political contexts that shaped them. Published by Phaidon with full-colour photography throughout, the book makes a compelling case for Brutalism’s importance as an architectural movement that was both technically audacious and ideologically serious — buildings that intended to express democratic values in concrete form. Essential for architects, architectural historians, and anyone interested in the built environment.