Brutalist Italy

Concrete architecture from the Alps to the Mediterranean Sea

Roberto Conte, Stefano Perego, Adrian Forty , Damon Murray

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FUEL Publishing
07 September 2023

Architectural structure & design

Containing over 140 exclusive photographs - ranging from private homes to football stadia - across every region of the country, Brutalist Italy is the first publication to focus entirely on this subject.

Best books of 2023 (Architecture and Design) - Financial Times

'Brutalist Italian architecture enthusiasts and concrete completists will be spoilt for choice by Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego's pictorial tour.' - Wallpaper
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What makes Italian Brutalist buildings different to their counterparts in other countries? Containing over 140 exclusive photographs - ranging from private homes to churches and cemeteries via football stadia - across every region of the country, Brutalist Italy is the first publication to focus entirely on this subject.

Architectural photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego (authors of Soviet Asia) have spent the past five years travelling over 20,000 kilometres documenting the monumental concrete structures of their native country.

Brutalism - with its minimalist aesthetic, favouring raw materials and structural elements over decorative design - has a complex relationship with Italian history. After World War II, Italian architects were keen to distance themselves from fascism, without rejecting the architectural modernism that had flourished during that era. They developed a form of contemporary architecture that engaged with traditional methods and materials, drawing on uncontaminated historical references. This plurality of pasts assimilated into new constructions is a recurring feature of the country's Brutalist buildings, imparting to them a unique identity.

From the imposing social housing of Le Vele di Scampia to the celestial Our Lady of Tears Sanctuary, Syracuse - Brutalist Italy collects the most compelling examples of this extraordinary architecture for the first time in a single volume.

The book is dual language, with texts in both English and Italian.

By: Roberto Conte, Stefano Perego
Text by: Adrian Forty
Edited by: Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell
Imprint: FUEL Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 160mm, Width: 230mm,
Weight: 640g
ISBN: 9781739887834
ISBN 10: 1739887832
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 07 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction by Adrian Forty (in English and Italian) Map of Italy showing administrative regions North West North East Centre South Afterword by Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego (in English and Italian)

Roberto Conte (1980) began taking photographs in 2006. Today he works closely with architectural practices, artists and designers, specialising in documenting buildings of the 20th century - ranging from avant-garde and rationalist structures to post-war modernism, brutalism and contemporary architecture. Stefano Perego (1984) began photographing the industrial ruins of Milan in 2006 and has since documented hundreds of abandoned sites across Europe. After visiting the former Yugoslavia, he decided to concentrate on the modernist and brutalist architecture of former socialist countries. Adrian Forty is Emeritus Professor of the History of Architecture - The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London EDITORS: Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell have been publishing critically acclaimed books on design and architecture since 2004.

Reviews for Brutalist Italy: Concrete architecture from the Alps to the Mediterranean Sea

"Brutalist Italy contains such a cavalcade of concrete riches that it seems selfish to publish any more images here; you'll have to buy the book to see the best ones.--Jonathan Bell ""Wallpaper*"""