domingo, noviembre 29, 2015

CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

, 1972






University of California, Irvine
William L. Pereira 1962-ca. 1977

William Pereira, UC Irvine’s first architect, chose the Brutalist style for the original eight buildings on the UCI campus. Brutalism derives its name from the French term béton brut, which literally means “raw concrete”; its premise was to stretch the technical limits of “brute” materials. Pereira’s buildings consist of large concrete boxes in three-dimensional castconcrete panels which float in a sea of open space and rise starkly from the landscape. He took advantage of mid-20th-century technical advances in the use of reinforced and pre-cast concrete, thus creating a consistent appearance across all of the early structures on campus. Throughout the 1970s Brutalist-inspired buildings were erected at UCI by other architects as well.