{"product_id":"brutal-scotland-9781914613883","title":"Brutal Scotland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrilliantly designed and beautifully produced, Simon Phipps' major new book - arguably his richest collection of architecture since Brutal London - is a celebration of Scotland's best Brutalist and Modernist buildings.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Peter Womersley's cinematically brilliant Bernat Klein Design Studio set on the edge of birch woods in the Borders to the innovative, liveable Langside Housing Estate in Shawlands, Glasgow (originally designed by Derek Stephenson and Partners), there is a wealth of architectural aspiration and inspiration these pages. Capturing a half century in which architecture reached, however perfectly or imperfectly, for solutions for the public's good this is an epic journey through a nation's period of reimagining.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs some of these buildings fall into neglected disrepair this is an urgent reconsideration of an era when architects, planners and councils of the period were reaching for a new architectural language, in a period of public investment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSimon Phipps\u003c\/strong\u003e is an artist based in London. Born in Leeds, he studied fine art in Newport and Caerleon and is a graduate in sculpture from the Royal College of Art. An acclaimed photographer of post-war modernist architecture. He is the author of six books: \u003cem\u003eBrutal London\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFinding Brutalism\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eConcrete Poetry: Post-War Modernist Public Art\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBrutal North: Post-War Modernist Architecture in the North of\u003c\/em\u003e England, \u003cem\u003eBrutal Outer London\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBrutal Wales Cymru Friwtalaidd\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eFinding Brutalism \u003c\/em\u003ewas a winner of the 2018 DAM Architectural Book Award and a bronze medalist in the 2018 German Photobook Award. \u003cem\u003eBrutal London \u003c\/em\u003ewas a finalist for the British Book and Production Awards 2017. \u003cem\u003eBrutal Outer London \u003c\/em\u003ewas shortlisted for the 2023 Architecture Book of the Year Award. @new_brutalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"September Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51998083252498,"sku":"9781914613883","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bd4d1211-250c-45a8-b6b0-7a1c7ea54292.jpg?v=1770138063","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/brutal-scotland-9781914613883","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}