ABSTRACT
The issue brought together the best of recent and contemporary British architecture for an international readership. This included a focus on New Brutalism. Setting the scene is a selection of nine excerpts from key texts on the subject. Three of the nine are by Reyner Banham, including his well-known 1955 article “The New Brutalism”, with its promotion of street-decks, the displacement of “beauty” by “image” and the importance of Alison and Peter Smithson’s Hunstanton School (1950-54) as “the prime exemplar of New Brutalism”.1 The other six excerpts are by the Smithsons, including “Answer on the New Brutalism”, “Cluster City” and “Mobility – Road Systems”. They insisted that: Fabrications, 2015 Vol. 25, No. 2, 262-286, https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10331867.2015.1036489 2015 The Journal of the Society of Architectural Australia and New Zealand
Zodiac 18 combined these various texts with recent projects by a large number of British architects, including Ahrends, Burton & Koralek; Norman and Wendy Foster; Denys Lasdun; Richard and Su Rogers; James Stirling; and Colin St John Wilson. They are early works by key late modern architects, who established their reputations that decade and the next and remain among the best-known practitioners of their generation.
