Helen Barrett

Abstract and concrete: the beauty of brutalism

Our modernist architecture is increasingly at risk, and we should cherish it more than we do, say Owen Hatherley and Nicholas Kenyon

Modernism for the wealthy: ‘The Barbican operates alongside the existing city, not as part of it.’ Looking up at the corner of one of the low-level residential blocks. [Getty Images]
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  • Modern Buildings in Britain: A Gazetteer

    Owen Hatherley

    Particular Books, pp. 608, £60

  • Building Utopia: The Barbican Centre

    Nicholas Kenyon

    Batsford, pp. 288, £40

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