Professor’s Essay on Brutalist Architecture Contributes to Global Survey

Dr. Zhongjie Lin, associate professor of architecture and urbanism, has written an essay for the forthcoming book, SOS Brutalism: A Global Survey, which will be published in October. Lin’s essay, “Conflicts and Re-adaptation: Introduction to East Asia,” is also the introductory essay for a large survey exhibition of Brutalist architecture, on view November 9, 2017 – April 2, 2018 at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (German Architecture Museum) in Frankfurt, Germany.

“SOS Brutalism: Save the Concrete Monsters!” celebrates the concrete-based Brutalist architecture of the 1950s-1970s with large-scale models and cast concrete miniatures representing buildings from around the world, including Japan, Brazil, the former Yugoslavia, Israel, and Great Britain. Lin served as a curatorial adviser in the selection of buildings for the East Asian section.

Lin is the Director of the Master of Urban Design program in the School of Architecture and was a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow. He is the author of Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement: Urban Utopias of Modern Japan, and a coauthor of Urban Design in the Global Perspective and The Making of a Chinese Model New Town.