Ethic Lost: Brutalism and the Regeneration of Social Housing Estates in Great Britain

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dc.contributor.advisorEggener, Keith
dc.contributor.authorKarp, Mackenzie
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-18T23:10:47Z
dc.date.available2015-08-18T23:10:47Z
dc.date.issued2015-08-18
dc.description.abstractBetween the late 1940s and the 1970s, the New Brutalism attempted to establish an ethical architecture befitting post-World War II Britain. For this reason, it became a popular style for public buildings, including social housing. Brutalist social housing estates were conceived by progressive post-war architects to house Britain’s neediest. Through an analysis of the utopian roots of Brutalism and the decline of the style and its ethic in scholarship and popular culture, I analyze the current redevelopment of three seminal Brutalist housing estates and the rediscovery of the Brutalist aesthetic by contemporary scholars and consumers alike. In this thesis, I argue that due to multiple factors, including a housing shortage across Britain, rising real-estate values and a general consumer interest in mid-century design, these estates are undergoing such regenerations. My thesis enhances our understanding of how social and political influences have shaped post-war British social housing up to the present.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/19319
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US
dc.subjectBrutalismen_US
dc.subjectGreat Britainen_US
dc.subjectPublic housingen_US
dc.subjectRegenerationen_US
dc.subjectSocial housingen_US
dc.subjectThe Smithsonsen_US
dc.titleEthic Lost: Brutalism and the Regeneration of Social Housing Estates in Great Britain
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of the History of Art and Architecture
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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