Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston

by Mark Pasnik, Michael Kubo, Chris Grimley

A key primer to the broad range of ground-breaking concrete architecture - inclusive of, but well beyond, brutalism - as it developed in its most accommodating city, Boston, and an important contribution to the efforts to preserve the built legacy of this era.

Often problematically labeled as "Brutalist" architecture, the concrete buildings that transformed Boston during 1960s and 1970s were conceived with progressive-minded intentions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580934242
• ISBN13: 9781580934244
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Monacelli Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"