The attempted apotheosis of the brute architect
Last night I had the unpleasant experience of attending a meeting at the London Barbican.This is, unaccountably, a Grade II listed building and heralded as one of London’s ‘best examples of Brutalist architecture’. So that you can avoid them, The Barbican was developed from designs by architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon as part of a utopian vision to transform an area of London left devastated by bombing during the Second World War. Frankly, the bombed sites would have looked more attractive.There have been...
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