How "Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston" Hopes to Reclaim America's Concrete Heritage

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Paul Rudolph, Government Service Center (1962-71). Image © Mark Pasnik

In 2007, when the late Mayor Thomas Menino announced his intentions to demolish Kallmann, McKinnell and Knowles' iconic Boston City Hall, he gave voice to a tragic but all-too-common popular discomfort with midcentury concrete architecture. Concerned that this threat was only the latest symptom of a pervasive misunderstanding of the significance of the concrete tradition, three architects - Mark Pasnik, Chris Grimley, and Michael Kubo - joined forces shortly thereafter to launch "The Heroic Project" and share their appreciation for this unfairly maligned chapter of architectural history. In addition to creating an internet web archive, Pasnik, Grimley, and Kubo jointly authored a forthcoming historical survey, Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston, scheduled to be released by The Monacelli Press in October 2015, which recasts the cultural and political story behind America's concrete heritage.

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Cite: David Langdon. "How "Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston" Hopes to Reclaim America's Concrete Heritage" 26 Jun 2015. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/769120/ad-interviews-the-authors-of-forthcoming-heroic-concrete-architecture-and-the-new-boston> ISSN 0719-8884

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