Heavy Volume

摘要

The Atlas of Brutalist Architecture (Phaidon, 2018), authored by the publisher's editors, captures beton brut in all its beguiling variations, including the sublime (Marcel Breuer's recently restored Whitney Museum of American Art), the detested (the now-demolished Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth, England, which Prince Charles likened to "a mildewed lump of elephant droppings"), and the dubious (OMA's maybe-Brutalist Seattle Central Library). Featuring 878 buildings from 102 countries, depicted in striking black-and-white photographs, the atlas is an exhaustive guide to this resurgent period of architecture, as well as few outliers.