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Introduction Introduction ALEX KITNICK “New Brutalism” remains a tricky term for the student of postwar art and architecture, both too specific and too general. On the one hand, it is associated with a small number of writings and projects carried out by a group of archi - tects, artists, and critics in 1950s London. Alison and Peter Smithson first used the term to describe a residential project in Soho that was to be characterized by a “warehouse” aesthetic and unfinished surfaces, and, in a famous 1955 essay, Reyner Banham wrote that the movement’s three primary characteristics were “Memorability as an Image,” “Clear exhibition of Structure,” and “Valuation of Material ‘as found.’” 1 Despite having been granted these attributes, however, or perhaps because of the way they lend themselves to both oversimplification (unfinished surfaces) and open-ended abstraction (“Memorability as an Image”), Brutalism is often employed today as nothing more than a vague epi - thet lobbed at vast expanses of postwar institutional building; its associations with art practice are, more frequently than not, left out entirely. The purpose of dedicating this issue to New Brutalism, then, is both to reconsider its theses and to reevaluate its work and writings, while at the same time amending and sup - plementing earlier histories of the moment, which have emphasized the pop aspects of the work. 2 In doing so, we hope to recapture something of New Brutalism’s latent critical potential. As Theo Crosby wrote in the January 1955 issue of Architectural Design , New Brutalism positioned itself against the “contemporary”—“its veneer of ‘modern’ 1. Alison and Peter Smithson, “House in Soho, London,” Architectural Design (December 1953), p. 342; and Reyner Banham, “The New Brutalism,” Architectural Review 118 (December 1955), pp. 354–61, both of which are reprinted in this issue. Banham later expanded his essay in The New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic? (London: The Architectural Press, 1966), which, while enlarging his canon to include other examples of European and Japanese architecture, also had the effect of obscuring what was at stake in his original use of the term. 2. See “The Independent Group,” ed. Hal Foster and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, October 94 (Fall 2000). See also the recently collected essays in Mark Crinson and Claire Zimmerman, eds., Neo-avant-garde and Postmodern: Postwar Architecture in Britain and Beyond (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010). OCTOBER 136, Spring 2011, pp. 3 –6. © 2011 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Downloaded from http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/OCTO_a_00027 by guest on 01 October 2021 4 OCTOBER details, frames, recessed plinths, decorative piloti.” 3 “Contemporary,” in this moment, functioned as shorthand for a bastardized version of modernism, a modernism already liquidated of its ideals and reduced to nothing more than a style, a look, and a scenario for up-to-date living. Against this degradation, New Brutalism sought to return to the first lessons of the modern movement, which led to a close study and rigorous evaluation of its key architects—Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe in par - ticular. Such attention paid to history, however, did not lead to rote repetition; in fact, it enabled a revision. Instead of embracing the automobile as object type, for example, as Le Corbusier had done in his seminal Vers une Architecture (1923), the Smithsons imagined the machine as a means of production, embracing it as a force that might actually produce architecture. 4 To this end, and to show architecture’s affiliation with the processes of industry, they used building materials as they found them. Steel and brick were incorporated as they were, with traces of production upon them, their industrial nature kept intact. (The vicissitudes of brick in New Brutalist discourse are taken up here by Anthony Vidler. 5) To a large extent, this interest in the “as found” translated into a preoccu - pation with questions of surface. Just as Le Corbusier embraced the patterns cre - ated by the rough wooden formwork on the exteriors of his concrete piloti at the Unité d’Habitation in Marseille (1947–52) so did the Smithsons show the scratch marks and scuffs that went into the making of their own buildings, such as their school at Hunstanton (1949–53). 6 Eduardo Paolozzi, too, in his bronze sculpture of the late 1950s, built up figures of hollow men that appear to be comprised solely of surface incident, with bits of rubbish and scrap caught like flies in lesions of wax (this process is detailed by Ben Highmore in his contribu - tion 7). Similarly, the architect and typographer Edward Wright (recovered for us here by Craig Buckley 8) found text to be part and parcel of the surface—or bet - ter yet, the texture—of architecture. Indeed, New Brutalism sought to capture a multiplicity of things within its envelope; one of its notable characteristics is the fantastic list of heterogeneous matter that it aimed to absorb. If New Brutalist art and architecture influenced each other, the Smithsons said in a 1954 inter - view, they are “equally and mysteriously influenced by industrial techniques, the cinema, supersonic flight, African villages, and old tin cans.” 9 Engaging a simi - larly diverse inventory of material, Nigel Henderson “made photograms using debris from bomb sites (though soon almost anything would do, bottles, ice, 3. [Theo Crosby,] “The New Brutalism,” Architectural Design (January 1955), p. 1; reprinted in this volume. 4. Of course, Le Corbusier also investigated various mechanical methods of manufacture, as can be seen in his Maison Domino (1915) as well as in his conception of the house as a machine à habiter . In the end though, Le Corbusier’s machine was a better oiled one than the Smithsons desired. 5. “Another Brick in the Wall,” pp. 105 –32. 6. Such qualities are quite apparent in the photographs of the project taken by Nigel Henderson. 7. “‘Image-breaking, God-making’: Paolozzi’s Brutalism,” pp. 87 –104. 8. “Graphic Constructions: The Experimental Typography of Edward Wright,” pp. 156 –81. 9. Bill Cowburn and Michael Pearson, “Art in Architecture,” 244: Journal of the University of Manchester Architecture and Planning Society 2 (Winter 1954), p. 20; reprinted in this volume. Downloaded from http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/OCTO_a_00027 by guest on 01 October 2021 New Brutalism: Introduction 5 elastic bands, negatives).” 10 In 1953, Henderson, Paolozzi, and the Smithsons put forth an even wider constellation of specimens in their exhibition Parallel of Life and Art , which featured photographs of everything from mud flats to bicycle crashes, and which sought to disclose some of the sources that they understood to be affecting their practices. In New Brutalism, then, the concrete reality of both art and architecture were understood to be fundamentally connected to a world of mediated images, as well as a sundry assortment of cast-off things. Indeed, New Brutalism took as its task the communication of this heteroge - neous world to the postwar subject, drawing together a vast array of dispersed effects into a consolidated—and perhaps comprehensible—form. For Banham, it did this via the “memorability” of the “images” it produced—whether in the form of a building, sculpture, or photograph. Not yet postmodern pictures, New Brutalist images lodged in the brain because they had something thing-like about them. The New Brutalist image was not abstract but visceral. Banham once referred to them as “concrete images—images that can carry the mass of tradition and association, or the energy of novelty and technology,” and deliver them to the beholding subject (this is the subject of my own contribution). 11 If New Brutalism in both its artistic and architectural incarnations sought to incorporate the diversity of the world, to compress it and forge it into an image, it also sought to extend outwards, to make plain the systems of circulation and commu - nication that structure life—and it is here that its concerns become more explicitly architectural, if no less artistic (this point is developed by Hadas Steiner in her text 12 ). New Brutalism consistently positioned itself in terms of wider environments and ecologies, taking particular interest in patterns of connection. Such a concern is evident in the Smithsons’ early studies of village footpaths and the sociability of the working class street. Banham’s attention to the topological pathways of the Smithsons’ unrealized Sheffield University project (1953) gets to this point as well, as do Nigel Henderson’s “stressed” photographs of street life, and the scattered blocks of Paolozzi’s designs for playgrounds. If the figure of the child was central to postwar British culture at large, connoting a fresh start and new life, New Brutalism valued it for offering a qualitatively different way of seeing. As Jean Piaget demonstrated at this time, children see topologically, and in channeling this view, New Brutalism began to move beyond the inherited geometries of Renaissance perspective into a spatial order characterized by affinity and spontaneity. If the child served as a first guide for the New Brutalists, even more important was the new culture of communication they saw before them. (If children presented one model of looking and seeing, the culture of phones and cars offered yet another. Or, to put it slightly differently, children’s vision provided a primitive 10. “Notes towards a chronology based on conversations with the artist,” in Nigel Henderson: Paintings Collages and Photographs (London: Anthony d’Offay, 1977), n.p. 11. Reyner Banham, “This Is Tomorrow,” Architectural Review 120 (September 1956), pp. 186–88; reprinted in this volume. 12. “Life at the Threshold,” pp. 133 –55. Downloaded from http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/OCTO_a_00027 by guest on 01 October 2021 6 OCTOBER model of tech nological communication.) New Brutalism, as Peter Smithson made clear in 1959, felt that architecture had to register such modes of communication in its very form.
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