Brutalisme Bruxelles

This first reference work dedicated to Brutalism in Brussels and its surrounding area explores the movement from the 1950s to the 1980s in all its diversity: office buildings, housing, university campuses, hospitals, cultural centres, places of worship, metro stations, as well as artistic interventions. Often reduced to concrete alone, its architecture is nevertheless a vehicle for typological, technical, and artistic innovation. From the inventiveness of its early days to the renewed interest it enjoys today, Brutalism asserts its identity and pioneering role in this publication, which is richly illustrated.

Through numerous photographs and previously unpublished archival documents, this book offers the opportunity to (re)discover architectural works that have become “classics” of Brutalism, as well as surprising, lesser-known, and sometimes lost projects.