Brutalist Architecture - On University Campuses

On University Campuses

In the late 1960s, many campuses in North America were undergoing expansions and, as a result, there are a significant number of Brutalist buildings at American and Canadian universities, beginning with Paul Rudolph's 1958 Yale Art and Architecture Building. Rudolph's design for the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is an example of an entire campus designed from scratch in the Brutalist style. Likewise, architect Walter Netsch designed the entire University of Illinois-Chicago Circle Campus (now the East Campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago) under a single, unified brutalist design. The University of Chicago's Joseph Regenstein Library is one of the largest libraries in the world, designed in the brutalist style.

  • York University's Scott Library, Toronto, Ontario.

  • University of Toronto's Robarts Library in downtown Toronto, Ontario.

  • Wean Hall, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

  • The Aula of Delft University in the Netherlands.

  • Posvar Hall at the University of Pittsburgh

  • The Barco Law Building at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law

  • Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje

  • University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences building.

  • The Roger Stevens Building at the University of Leeds is the centre piece to a large complex of Brutalist buildings connected by skyways.

  • The University of California, San Diego's Geisel Library is one of the most famous examples of Brutalist architecture, and has been featured in a number of science fiction movies.

  • D.B. Weldon Library at the University of Western Ontario

  • Joseph Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago

  • The Malcom Moos Health Sciences Tower at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus.

  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Folsom Library

  • Birmingham Central Library Building, Birmingham, England.

  • The Knight Campus building of the Community College of Rhode Island in Warwick, Rhode Island.

  • The Zumberge Library at the Allendale-campus of Grand Valley State University.

  • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Claire T Carney Library

  • UTS Tower at the University of Technology, Sydney.

  • The Egg, part of the Empire State Plaza project in Albany, NY.

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