Thoburn, Nicholas, 1970- author.

Brutalism as found : housing, form and crisis at Robin Hood Gardens / Nicholas Thoburn.

London : Goldsmiths Press, 2022.
©2022

260 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Spatial politics

"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 clichéd 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." back cover.

1913380041 hardcover
9781913380045 hardcover

Smithson, Alison, 1928-1993 Criticism and interpretation.
Smithson, Peter, 1923-2003 Criticism and interpretation.
Robin Hood Gardens (London, England)
Brutalism (Architecture) England London.
Public housing England London.
Architecture and society England London.
Brutalisme (Architecture) Angleterre Londres.
Logement social Angleterre Londres.
Architecture et société Angleterre Londres.
Public housing
Architecture and society
Brutalism (Architecture)
London (England) Social conditions 20th century.
London (England) Social conditions 21st century.
England London

Spatial politics.

Location: Library main 317140
Call No.: 317140
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