Showing posts with label Brutalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brutalism. Show all posts

Thursday, 17 February 2011

Who knew?


Today I discovered that one of the local schools back home in Norfolk was designed by Britain's leading Brutalist architects, Peter and Alison Smithson. The first project to bring them wider acclaim, Hunstanton School (now Smithdon High) is made almost entirely of glass and steel, and was highly influenced by the work of Mies van der Rohe. I've often driven past and thought it looked particularly interesting, but never quite realised its historical status!