Countless schools, libraries, universities — even a prison or two — were built in the Brutalist style between the 1950s and about 1980. But age and Brutalism's often cold and institutional look have now placed the buildings at risk.
Meet some of the architects selected by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication as la crème de la crème of a new generation of French architecture and landscape architecture firms.
Very soon after the dawn of urban living, people have constructed spaces for viewing cities from above. This talk explores Chicago’s extraordinary history as a center for creating unique and imaginative functions for “spaces atop the city.”
Listen in to a conference on the state of visionary urbanism featuring noted architects, theorists, and scholars, who debate how to engage the city in the age of extreme urbanization.
