New photography book Brutal North offers a celebration of brutalist architecture in northern England

Photographer Simon Phipps has a concrete opinion on brutalist architecture – that it should be celebrated. Brutalist architecture, a style first associated with architect Le Corbusier, uses a lot of concrete and is often criticised for being ugly, imposing and for weathering badly. But Simon sees brutalist structures as visionary, buildings to be celebrated for … Read more

New photography book Brutal North offers a celebration of brutalist architecture in northern England

Photographer Simon Phipps has a concrete opinion on brutalist architecture – that it should be celebrated. Brutalist architecture, a style first associated with architect Le Corbusier, uses a lot of concrete and is often criticised for being ugly, imposing and for weathering badly. But Simon sees brutalist structures as visionary, buildings to be celebrated for … Read more