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Brutalist Paris

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Brutalist Paris is the first thoroughly researched, English language study of Parisian brutalist architecture. It constructs a unique photographic record of over 50 buildings across Paris and brings a new interpretation of brutalism in the French context. The book is the result of many journeys, from the Parisian centre to its outer peripheries, and situates brutalism within the broader social, political and cultural context of Paris. It describes brutalism's successes and failures in Paris, from an architecture of monumental urban form to intricately crafted living spaces; from valued, historic monuments to abandoned ruins.

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Modern London map

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Explore extraordinary examples of Modern architecture built across London between 1930 and 1960 with this two-sided map. Featuring over fifty buildings, from social housing to churches and the Festival Hall, this guide includes original photography by Nigel Green and building details and an introduction by Robin Wilson.

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Surface tension supplement no.5 : Beyond utopia

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A collaboration between artist Sophie Warren, architect Jonathan Mosley and writer Robin Wilson, Beyond Utopia looks at the practicalities of utopian thinking in urban planning and administrative culture. Submitting a utopian architectural proposal for a real site in London to city officials, the trio enacted a form of playful provocation as a basis for exploring the systems and languages of planning, architecture and city development. Though fictive, the utopian proposal gained credence as it was discussed and shared among planning officials and reviewers, ultimately becoming a springboard for dialogue about possibilities and even actualities in the sphere of public space. Centered on a screenplay for an unrealized film, which restages the process and exchanges of the original proposal, Surface Tension Supplement No. 5 also includes texts and projects by leading theorists, artists and academics who debate the roles of spatial practice and politics today.

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Modern Oxford map

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Our ''Modern Oxford Map'' curates the city’s finest Modernist and Brutalist architecture through a selection of 50 buildings, with an introduction and descriptions by architectural historian Robin Wilson and original photography by Nigel Green. Amidst Oxford’s celebrated historic architecture, you’ll be surprised by the diversity of its Modernist and Brutalist buildings, which range from architectures of radical new form-making and geometric composition in concrete, innovative mixed-use developments, as well as carefully crafted, contextual interventions into the existing historic fabric.