A collection of photographs to communicate my critique of Brutalist buildings designed and constructed during the post-war era. Rather than being a result of reluctance, this publication is a celebration of architectural forms intended for the common good. Such as educational institutions, housing estates, entertainment venues and commercial centres. All buildings intended to enhance and improve the lives of ordinary citizens – communities. All in accordance with the modernist principles. Many of which have been outlasted. Could therefore architecture possibly be immune to an ideology?
All captured buildings are a reminder of current realities of modernist projects not always holding onto its promises. Due to which many are now serving a different purpose, facing dereliction or destruction. Causing the idea of common good disappear and communities becoming hidden.
Hidden Communities.
This exhibition adopts the form of a tour of cities imagined, narrated and represented; establishing a dialogue between the novel Invisible Cities (Italy, 1972) by Italo Calvino and selected works in the collection of the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid.