Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston, by Mark Pasnik, Chris Grimley, Michael Kubo
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Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston, by Mark Pasnik, Chris Grimley, Michael Kubo
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Often problematically labeled as “Brutalist” architecture, the concrete buildings that transformed Boston during 1960s and 1970s were conceived with progressive-minded intentions by some of the world’s most influential designers, including Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, I. M. Pei, Henry Cobb, Araldo Cossutta, Gerhard Kallmann and Michael McKinnell, Paul Rudolph, Josep Lluís Sert, and The Architects Collaborative. As a worldwide phenomenon, building with concrete represents one of the major architectural movements of the postwar years, but in Boston it was deployed in more numerous and diverse civic, cultural, and academic projects than in any other major U.S. city. After decades of stagnation and corrupt leadership, public investment in Boston in the 1960s catalyzed enormous growth, resulting in a generation of bold buildings that shared a vocabulary of concrete modernism. The period from the 1960 arrival of Edward J. Logue as the powerful and often controversial director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority to the reopening of Quincy Market in 1976 saw Boston as an urban laboratory for the exploration of concrete’s structural and sculptural qualities. What emerged was a vision for the city’s widespread revitalization often referred to as the “New Boston.” Today, when concrete buildings across the nation are in danger of insensitive renovation or demolition, Heroic presents the concrete structures that defined Boston during this remarkable period—from the well-known (Boston City Hall, New England Aquarium, and cornerstones of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University) to the already lost (Mary Otis Stevens and Thomas F. McNulty’s concrete Lincoln House and Studio; Sert, Jackson & Associates’ Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School)—with hundreds of images; essays by architectural historians Joan Ockman, Lizabeth Cohen, Keith N. Morgan, and Douglass Shand-Tucci; and interviews with a number of the architects themselves. The product of 8 years of research and advocacy, Heroic surveys the intentions and aspirations of this period and considers anew its legacies—both troubled and inspired.
Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston, by Mark Pasnik, Chris Grimley, Michael Kubo - Amazon Sales Rank: #430273 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-27
- Released on: 2015-10-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 10.14" h x 1.39" w x 7.04" l, 1.25 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 336 pages
Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston, by Mark Pasnik, Chris Grimley, Michael Kubo Review “In a fascinating new book, architects Mark Pasnik, Michael Kubo, and Chris Grimley extol the creative energy of the period from 1960 to 1976. And as Bostonians from Mayor Marty Walsh on down express disappointment in recent architecture, most notably the blocklike Seaport District structures designed by a handful of high-profile firms, there are lessons to learn from the age of monumental concrete.” —The Boston Globe“During the 1960s and '70s, tony Boston became the proving ground for a new generation of architects creating massive civic and university buildings of austere concrete. Heroic captures the strange beauty of Paul Rudolph's imaginative Government Service Center; Sert, Jackson & Associates' Peabody Terrace apartments; and other controversial structures.” —Elle Decor “Heroic rebrands the concrete architecture built in Boston between 1960 and 1976 and, through a series of historical essays, interviews with architects and building profiles, digs into the intentions behind this oft-reviled period. The smartly-illustrated building profiles are among the most revelatory, showing intricate spaces hidden under concrete skins.” —Alexandra Lange, Curbed“You can’t fight City Hall—love it or hate it, the Brutalist edifice, like many others in Boston, is probably here to stay. But in a new book out this month, Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston, three local architecture academics argue that we all need to stop bitching and embrace our city’s imposing slab-poured masterpieces.” —Boston Magazine “Boston, city of charming Colonial-era brick rowhouses lining narrow cobblestone streets. Not exactly the place you’d expect to incubate a modern design revolution. And yet, when Brutalism first came to the US, the hard-edge architectural movement took its firmest hold here. The new book Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston by Mark Pasnik, Chris Grimley and Michael Kubo explores how Boston became an unlikely home for many of the world’s great concrete buildings.” —Gizmodo “A bravura history, capturing the energy, optimism, idealism and creativity of an architecture that is too often dismissed.”—Dallas Morning News“The past several years have seen a campaign to erase an entire chapter of America's 20th-century architectural heritage, targeting the Brutalist public buildings of the 1960s and 1970s. But, says this book, which catalogs Boston's great concrete buildings from that period, the movement's defenders could use a better PR strategy—not Brutalist but Heroic.”—Metropolis“A deep appreciation of a much-maligned movement. In the ancient world, concrete was not considered at first a finish material suitable for monumental architecture. As its plastic nature was valued and its technique refined, concrete formed curvilinear buildings such as the Pantheon in Rome. In the modern era and in combination with steel reinforcement bars that compensate for the weakness of the material in tension, poured-in-place (and perhaps even more so precast) concrete in architecture came to symbolize vestiges of totalitarianism and unforgiving designs. For coauthors Pasnik, Michael Kubo, and Chris Grimley, principals in the Boston-based design company, over,under, there is little irony in the adaptation of béton brut (raw concrete) into the style descriptor brutalism. Rather, the four essays, a catalog of buildings in and around Boston, and interviews with seven practitioners provide a persuasive and compelling defense of the possibilities of concrete. Page design evokes the era, full-spread illustrations communicate the texture and rigor of the designs, and the straightforward copy deftly chronicles the history and describes the structures. Essential for architecture collections.”—Library Journal“One of the very best books on Boston’s architecture, of any period. And also one of the finest books on concrete brutalism, of any place.” —Daniel M. Abramson, Associate Professor, Art History & Director, Architectural Studies at Tufts University “Every city has its architectural DNA, and Boston's lies partly in its monumental concrete architecture of the 1950s and 1960s. Heroic presents a magnificently perceptive view of this—and through a wonderful series of interviews with some of the architects responsible, gives a rare insight into that generation's attraction to concrete.” —Adrian Forty, Professor Emeritus of Architectural History at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, author of Concrete and Culture: A Material History (Reaktion Books, 2012) “Heroic successfully redefines the terms for discussing the monumental, concrete architecture of the 1960s, a critical step for thinking about its past and future.” —Timothy M. Rohan, Associate Professor of Architecture at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, author of The Architecture of Paul Rudolph (Yale, 2014) “Open your hearts: concrete architecture is beautiful, inspiring, excessive, heroic. This book is a work of a passion to architecture, the people of, and the city where remarkable buildings of exceptional quality and urban poise blossomed in the 1960s. Do enjoy the deserved celebration of such amazing legacy!” —Ruth Verde Zein, Professor at Mackenzie University, São Paulo, Brazil, author of “Brutalist Connections: a refreshed approach to debates and buildings.”
About the Author Mark Pasnik, Michael Kubo, and Chris Grimley are codirectors of pinkcomma gallery and collaborators in the design firm over,under. Mark Pasnik is an associate professor of architecture at Wentworth Institute of Technology and has taught previously at the California College of the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Northeastern University, and Rhode Island School of Design. Michael Kubo is a Ph.D. candidate in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture at MIT, a founding partner of the design practice Collective–LOK, and was associate curator for OfficeUS, the U.S. Pavilion at the 2014 International Architecture Biennale in Venice. Chris Grimley is an adjunct professor at Northeastern University and has taught previously at the University of British Columbia, Rhode Island School of Design, and Wentworth Institute of Technology. The Heroic Project was launched in 2009 with an exhibition at pinkcomma gallery and has appeared at the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Modern Module (2010) and the Art Institute of Chicago (2015). Previous articles have been published in Architect, Celeste, CLOG, and Harvard Design Magazine.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. White (concrete) Period of Boston By Joongwon Lee This is a rare book on Boston Architecture, particularly the White (Concrete) Period during 1960~1976. The time of the story is bracketed by the famous Boston City Hall and the Quincy Market project. The book is divided into three sections. It begins with the scholars' essays. Of which, Mr. Douglass Shand-Tucci essay and Prof. Joan Ockman's essay particularly stand out. Second section is on buildings. This section provides project description and photos. Project description was provided by Mark Pasnik (Author), Chris Grimley (Author), Michael Kubo (Author). The trio did an excellent & diligent archive findings to revive the critics' voices of the Heroic era. Readers will find it quite interesting how the architectural circle of the Heroic period reacted when each of the Heroic building was first built. Last section is on Voices. The last section is particularly valuable because actual players (architects) of the White Period share their thoughts and experience. Hearing directly from Michael McKinnell, Henry Cobb, and Araldo Cossutta is particularly awesome. A story first heard (personally) was on Mary Otis Stevens and Thomas F. McNulty’s concrete Lincoln House and Studio. Getting to know the inside stories of Cambridge 7's aquarium and TAC's Brattle Street projects were also intriguing. Boston began its Heroic Period following Beton Brut period of late Le Corbusier building. Heroic, as a counter movement to late CIAM urbanism, made a significant architecture history in Boston. Story of Boston City Hall, Rudolph's Government Center, Pei's Concrete buildings, Sert's Harvard and BU buildings, and the Le Corbusier's only American building (Carpenter Center) is well pesented, documented, and argued. Great Book and Great Story of Boston Heroic Period. The book is beefy, but a page-turner, great graphics and photos. Must buy for Boston architecture and urbanism fans. Please more books on Boston Architecture !
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Beautiful and informative By M. Bellefeuille "Heroic" is as beautiful as it is informative. The book is more than a survey of mid-twentieth century concrete architecture in Boston; it is an elegant history of that architecture, the process of designing and building it, and the historical context in which it was created. Perhaps most important, the book details the optimistic spirit that drove the creation of this "heroic" architecture and the vision of a "New Boston" at a time of unprecedented decline in the city. "Heroic" offers lovers and detractors of Boston's concrete architecture (often derided as Brutalist) a new appreciation of the history and culture in which it was created, and perhaps even of the often beautiful and exuberant aesthetics of these icons of Boston's built form.
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