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Brutalist home, studio and library of Pedro Reyes & Carla Fernandez

May, 2015.

We dare you to enter the castle of the Houston Post Office and ask about your lost letter. Wilson, Morris, Crain & Anderson: Houston Post Building, Houston, TX, USA, 1970 http://sosbrutalism.org/cms/15892253 Photo: WhisperToMe 2010 (public domain)

Downtown campus, Miami-Dade Community College (1973)

Matthias Heiderich, 2016

Louis Jefferson Long Library at Wells College, Aurora, New York, 1968 – SOM

Dallas City Hall Architect: I.M. Pei, Theodore Musho Main contractor: Robert E. McKee, Inc. Awards and prizes: 1979 Excellence Award, American Consulting Engineers Council

Lead Designers: I. M. Pei  Kellogg Wong

“This bravura house gives the illusion of a huge weight of concrete supported by nothing more than a sheer glass wall. It is the home of Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa, principals of the architecture practice Ensamble Studio, who say that engineering took a year, while the pre-fabricated structure was erected in just seven days. One of the projecting beams is a swimming pool: quite clearly it has taken considerable reinforcing to make the concrete elements of the house do the architects’ bidding. But, as Mesa says, as if she was talking about Brutalism itself, this is “Architecture out of the comfort zone.”