7 stunning photos of 'ugly' Brutalist buildings from around the world

Brutalist architecture has never been widely belovedin fact, infamous James Bond supervillain Goldfinger was named after a Brutalist architect, Erno Goldfinger.But a new book celebrates the style, rounding up eye-catching, black-and-white photos of Brutalist buildings around the world.In "This Brutal World," graphic designer and Brutalism enthusiast Peter Chadwick highlights approximately 300 examples of Brutalist buildings from 60 countries. Some of the structures featured in the book are iconic and well-studiedsuch as New York Citys Met Breuer museum (originally the Whitney Museum), designed by Marcel Breuer, and the Unite d Habitation in Marseille, France, by Le Corbusier while others are less well-known.See images from Chadwicks book below.Centro de Exposic'o'es do Centro Administrativo da Bahia in Bahia, BrazilThe aesthetic, which was most prominent from the 1950s through the 1970s,was despised by more than just Bond author Ian Fleming. Prince Charles once described Portsmoth, England's Brutalist Tricorn shopping centeras a mildewed lump of elephant droppings. Other critics haveremarked that the fortress-like concrete structures seemed cold, totalitarian or just plain ugly.Salk Institute in La Jolla, CaliforniaThe term Brutalist comes from the French word for raw, which Swiss architect Le Corbusier used to describe his material of choice: raw concrete, or bton brut. Grand Central Water Tower in Midrand, South AfricaThe architectural style expresses a transparent honesty; concrete is left exposed, without anything colorful to cover it. The structural elements that support buildings' functions are also often visible, making it clear from the outside whats going on within.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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