Eun Young Yi: Stuttgart City Library, 1999-2011. (Luigi Monzo 2025). The Stuttgart City Library is one of those buildings that demands to be taken seriously. Not because it overwhelms the city by scale or gesture—on the contrary—but because it insists on clarity, discipline, and restraint in an urban environment that rarely rewards such qualities. More …
The Hands That Built the Future: On Craftsmanship and the Paradox of Brutalism
It is one of the great paradoxes of twentieth-century architecture: that the buildings which appeared most austere and raw — the massive concrete structures of the 1950s to 1970s — were in fact realized with an extraordinary degree of care, precision, and craft. In an age of economic boom, growing labor costs, and expanding workers’ …
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Luigi Monzo 