Architectural Styles

Hubaiba's Part
Brutalism in Architecture
Brutalist architecture is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in
the United Kingdom
Brutalism is a style with an emphasis on

• Materials (exposed, unpainted - brick, steel, concrete)

• Textures
• Construction
• Producing highly expressive forms
• Angular geometric shapes

Brutalism, from béton-brut—French for raw concrete.

Unité d’Habitation, Le Corbusier

Three hundred and thirty-seven two-level

apartments configured over twelve stories
are innovatively interlocked such that an
interior corridor is needed only on every
third floor.

The entire structure sits on Pilotis, or piers.

 Sainte Marie de
la Tourette
One hundred monastic cells are lit by horizontal strip
windows on the interior courtyard facade and deep
balconies on the exterior facade, to mitigate both natural
light and shade.

• A heavy rectangular structures that create a closed

interior space.
• The compact rectangle that rests on the edge of the hill
houses the church
• Use of reinforced concrete, with undulating glass
surfaces
• The open space between the four wings isn’t a typical
patio. It is divided into four parts by the two vertical
corridors joining each other.
Ministry of Highway Construction
(now Bank of Georgia)

• The structure consists of a monumental

grid of interlocking concrete forms
• Five horizontal parts with two stories each
seem to be stapled on top of each other.
• The structure rests on and hangs from
three cores
• They contain the vertical circulation
elements like stairs and elevators
• Big parts of the building are lifted off the
ground
• the landscape runs through beneath
Welbeck Street Car Park ,
London
Designed of Tessellated concrete polygons

SESC Pompéia Factory, Brazil

Multi-purpose building by adding two concrete towers connected by
diagonal walkways.
Metabolism in Architecture
Shizuoka Press and
Broadcasting Center, Tokyo
• Build using only a single core Tange arranged
the offices as cantilevered steel and glass boxes.
• The cantilever is emphasized by punctuating
the three-storey blocks with a single-storey
glazed balcony.
• The concrete forms of the building were cast
using aluminum formwork and the aluminum
has been left on as a cladding
Nakagin Capsule
Tower, Tokyo
• It is constructed of 140 capsules
plugged into two cores that are 11
and 13 stories in height.
• The capsules contained the latest
gadgets of the day and were built
to house small offices
• Constructed of light steel welded
trusses covered with steel sheeting
mounted onto the reinforced
concrete cores.
Yoyogi National
Gymnasium,
Tokyo • It is famous for suspended roof design.
• The design of this gymnasium strives to
address modern needs while simultaneously
paying homage to traditional Japanese temple
architecture.
• A central structural spine, the suspended roof
spins away in sweeping curves and blends with
the curved form of the concrete base.