Finding brutalism in the architecture of John Andrews

Abstract

The architecture of John Andrews has often been described as Brutalist. However, there is no direct link between Andrews’ architecture and the British scene of the 1950s, out of which Brutalism and the architecture of Team 10 emerged. Rather, his work develops from the late Congres Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM) focus on monumentality and the “heart of the city”. The architect himself has often expressed the view that his work is better understood not as Brutalist (or having any other theoretical agenda), but rather as developing from a common sense approach to program, site and constructional means. Despite this, whether or not it is historiographically accurate to call Andrew..