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Between two books, the British architectural historian Barnabas Calder suffered a kind of epiphany. With Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism In 2016 he had celebrated the rediscovery of the building style of the same name in the 1960s and 1970s in 2016, that era of building sculptures shaped by sculptor hands with a rough concrete. But already with his next book, Calder made outdoors for his concrete glorification. It said Architecture from prehistory to climate emergencyand the beauty in the title had given way to an emergency. What happened?
