“Nils Holger Moormann is like his furniture, his furniture is like him: ascetic, intelligent, humorous and stubborn. Whoever buys it, soon realizes it’s like inviting a wayward child into the home, one whose devotion needs first to be earned. But it will last a lifetime.” Welt am Sonntag
Image: Salk Institute La Jolla California // Architect: Louis Kahn // Photography: Benjamin A. Monn
This Brutal World is a global survey of this compelling and much-admired style of architecture. It brings to light virtually unknown Brutalist architectural treasures from across the former eastern bloc and other far flung parts of the world.
It includes works by some of the best contemporary architects including Zaha Hadid and David Chipperfield as well as by some of the master architects of the 20th century including Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, Paul Rudolph and Marcel Breuer.
Publisher: PHAIDON // Author: Peter Chadwick
Production & Text by: Tobias Pützer // Color Grading & Portrait by: Benjamin A. Monn
