Brutalism originated in the mid-1950s and was based on the work of modern architecture pioneer Le Corbusier. It refers to the buildings which having distinct sculptured form, bold geometries and material rigor - usually in rough or textured concrete. Le Corbusier purposed that Architecture ‘is to establish emotional relationships by means of raw materials’. Goldstein Hall as a brutalist buildings with an emphasis on structural expression and extreme material honesty invoked a matter of ‘harmonies’ and ‘a pure creation of the spirit’.
Goldstein Hall is designed by Peter Hall, who completed the design of the Sydney Opera House after the resignation of Jørn Utzon. As the idiom of the ‘Sydney School’, Goldstein Hall reflected the natural qualities of the Sydney bushland as well as using materials in an unadorned, “honest” manner. It demonstrates how the Sydney School interpreted Brutalism with expressive use of materials and impressive communal spaces . …show more content…
Not only exterior but also interior, the hall unreservedly exposed these unpainted and textured materials. Freeland praised its exposed and abundant natural materials make the building richer, warmer and more human as a result and improve the visual depth. Though the principles of the design were fundamental and basic, but ‘it was a satisfactory architecture-sensitive and deep’. Gazzard also recalled his deep impression of the natural materials and elements of the hall, which offering an unpompous inevitable