Francisco Salamone / the architect from The Pampas, specialising in gothic and art deco

Metal sculpture 'Ancestor' -- Seymour Lipton When it comes to attitude and commanding presence, brutalist design has it in spades. Its primary gestation began in the 50‘s from the architectural movement known as New Brutalism, which evolved from the use of concrete as a building material to create monumental statements adapted from modernist ideals. Raw concrete in French is 'béton-brut', which was a source of the name. Its use in architecture and sculpture added a confrontational rawness to…

Expo Georgia Theme (7th) Pavilion and Monument to Creativity in Tbilisi. Modernist, Soviet architecture in the former USSR.