Yet as well as being fetishised for its rough and ready qualities, there’s also a growing desire to preserve the best examples of concrete architecture in the face of widespread indifference and downright hostility.

Vilified for decades as the stepchild of modernism, brutalist architecture is now enjoying a comeback as the latest discovery among digital trendsetters: uncompromising and incredibly daring, the colossal structures of the 1960s and 1970s both stand as testament to the post-war years and inspire contemporary architectural language. In its thick, heavy, and appropriately dense weight, the Atlas not only covers the 'big names' of Brutalism, but also its lesser well–known members and more recent practices and places that have been inspired by it. They analyze the evolution of the style's definitions, examine the relationship between the projects and their site/landscape, and explore experimental programmatic and design concepts that the movement offers to contemporary architectural concerns. Eastern Europe of course wins, with the most interesting and odd examples, and the link between Brutalism and the history of this area was valuable. Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin.

The collection features buildings scattered around the arrondissements, as well as the infamous suburban banlieues. When I flipped through it, what immediately caught my attention was a range of names, both seminal and almost obscure from far-flung corners of the globe, all given seemingly equal importance.

A photographic insight into the Soviet-era architecture of one of the most extreme, little-known and vast territories on Earth. Drawn from his extensive investigations into Berlin’s urban landscape, Jesse Simon’s texts and photographs offer a convincing argument for the aesthetic and social value of buildings that were once described as “eyesores.New York Times Best Art Book of 2018 - "Newcomers will discover the global influence of brutalism, that final age of civic architectural ambition; true believers can use it to prepare years of concrete-coated vacations. It also illustrates how, despite vast differences in political ideologies, both East and West Berlin employed remarkably similar approaches to the creation of new urban spaces. One of them, Igor Vasilevsky, the son of the Soviet Marshal Aleksandr Vasilevsky who became a defense minister shortly after World War II, was the architect of Druzhba (Friendship) Sanatorium built in Yalta in 1985 in Crimea, now annexed from Ukraine and unlawfully occupied by Russia. Featured architects include: John Andrews; João Batista Vilanova Artigas; Lina Bo Bardi; Bogdan Bogdanović; Marcel Breuer; Douglas Cardinal; André-Jacques Dunoyer de Segonzac; Bertrand Goldberg; Ernő Goldfinger; Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak; Agustín Hernández Navarro; John M.