Abstract
OCTOBER 136, Spring 2011, pp. 19–28. © Architectural Review, December 1955, pp. 354–61. In this seminal essay, Reyner Banham brings together a number of the key terms that had been gathering around New Brutalism, defining the movement in three theses: “1, Memorability as an Image; 2, Clear exhibition of Structure; and 3, Valuation of Material ‘as found.’” New Brutalism’s revision of the modern movement, Banham argues, is partly the work of his generation of architectural historians, who had recently begun to write its history. Banham also rethinks his response to Parallel of Life and Art here, seeing in the exhibition a powerful example of how image and texture might be bound together.—A.K.
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