Scottish Brutalism

Scottish Brutalism is a website set up by Ross Brown to accompany his research project into Brutalist architecture at the University of Strathclyde Department of Architecture. The project

aims to map, document and critically assess Brutalist architecture across the Strathclyde region of Scotland, UK. Illustrated articles and building studies, periodically published on scotbrut.co.uk, demonstrate the quality and variety of Brutalist architecture built across Strathclyde between the late 1950s & early 1980s.

(Pictured: Anniesland Cross Housing, Glasgow, Jack Holmes & Partners, 1969)

Fitzgerald’s Clothiers

A new Brighton-based menswear brand, Fitzgerald’s Clothiers ‘specialise in producing classic mid 20th century menswear, specifically, but not limited to, Ivy league style garments’. Their initial offering is a proper Oxford cloth button-down shirt that recalls the classic Sero ‘The Purist’ shirt of yore; classic, rather than slim, fit with, crucially, an unlined collar for that perfect roll. Definitely one to keep an eye on.

Saloua Raouda Choucair

Opening tomorrow at Tate Modern is the first major museum exhibition of the diverse work of pioneering Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair. Based in Beirut, she was taught by traditional landscape painters, but carved out a unique modernist vision of her own, influenced by Islam and western abstract art.

The Saloua Raouda Choucair retrospective runs from 17 April – 20 October 2013.

(Pictured: ‘Composition in Blue Module’ 1947–51, © Saloua Raouda Choucair Foundation)

russianavantgarde:

Gustav Klutsis - Maquette for Radio-Announcer, 1922

Extreme Metaphors

Fascinating review by Kevin Jackson of Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J G Ballard, 1967-2008, edited by Simon Sellars and Dan O’Hara.

This collection of forty-odd bits of journalism can be enjoyed as a kind of protracted non-fiction novel … The ‘Ballard’ of Extreme Metaphors, like the ‘Ballard’ of Crash or the ‘Jim’ of Empire of the Sun, is a well-wrought character. And a fascinating character at that.

Read the full review at the Literary Review website.

Brutalism in the UK

An ongoing series by architectural photographer Andy Spain.

via publicobsessions:

http://www.archdaily.com/70676/brutalism-in-the-uk/

Stravinsky and The Rite of Spring

Jazz pianist and composer Julian Joseph is at the Southbank Centre’s The Rest Is Noise festival to speak about the fascination of jazz and black music for composers such as Stravinsky. Here he talks to the Guardian’s Imogen Tilden about the Russian composer’s visionary classical work The Rite of Spring.

(Source: Guardian)

One map, a thousand reviews

A literary map of David Foster Wallace.

(Source: pinterest.com)