Mark Pasnik, Michael Kubo and Chris Grimley, have compiled years of research, interviews, and a popular exhibit on the topic into the Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston.

The trio literally wrote the book on brutalism in Boston — their 2015 history “Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston,” which won a 2017 “advocacy award of excellence” from the ...

The exposed, poured-in-place “raw” concrete—béton ... the Capital Brutalism catalog, architecture critic and educator Aaron Betsky contends that Washington’s brutalist buildings “managed to make the ...

an architecture professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology and author of “Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston.” “So many people call these buildings Stalinist, but nothing ...

Another wrote, “Ugly concrete building from an ugly architecture period ... that the better name for this style is “Heroic.” It captures the best and worst qualities of the architecture ...

In the mid-20th century, Boston was in a financial and cultural rut — and needed a jolt. Flush with $40 million in federal funds, the city cleared some 1,000-plus buildings — obliterating a historic ...

coauthor of Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston. Rudolph’s ambitions were lofty: The more than 225,000-square-foot mental health center is one of the three buildings originally ...

An architectural style characterized by unfinished concrete, recessed windows ... advocating that Brutalist buildings be referred to as “heroic” instead. But there’s no need to vilify ...

Hefty monographs about concrete were everywhere in 2017 ... cited as inspiration by a new generation seduced by the authenticity and heroic ambitions of this impressive architecture. Yet as well as ...

As an architecture student at Cornell, Krieger and his friends piled into a car and drove six hours simply to see the massive building. In the 2015 book “Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the ...

When Oliver Wainwright, the architecture critic of the Guardian newspaper, visited Robin Hood Gardens, a controversial London housing project, as it was being demolished last year, he says, “I ...

HEROIC: CONCRETE ARCHITECTURE AND THE NEW BOSTON, out now Synopsis: People love to hate Boston City Hall, failing to find the beauty in its hulking concrete form. It emerged from a new wave of ...