Photos of more than a hundred Italian Brutalist buildings in a new book

Photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego traveled across the Italian peninsula for five years documenting the buildings built between the 60s and 80s.

Extension of Jesi cemetery. Leonardo Ricci (1984-1994). Photo by Stefano Perego.

Gesù Redentore Church, Turin. Nicola Mosso, Leonardo Mosso, Livio Norzi (1954-1957). Photo by Stefano Perego.

Monument to the Resistance, Macerata. Gruppo Marche - Paolo Castelli, Luigi Cristini, Romano Pellei (1969). Photo by Roberto Conte.

Residential complex Pegli 3 - "The Washing Machines", Genoa. Aldo Luigi Rizzo, Aldo Pino, Andrea Mor, Angelo Sibilla (1980-1989). Photo by Stefano Perego.

Casa Albero (Tree House), Fregene. Giuseppe Perugini, Raynaldo Perugini and Uga De Plaisant, (1968-1971). Photo by Stefano Perego.

Atelier-Museum Augusto Murer, Falcade. Giuseppe Davanzo (1970-1971). Photo by Roberto Conte.

Urban forniture, Collevalenza - Todi. Julio Lafuente (1953-1974). Photo  by Stefano Perego.

Busto Arsizio Monumental Cemetery's extension. Luigi Ciapparella (1971). Photo by Stefano Perego.

Sanctuary of Madonna delle Lacrime, Siracusa. Michel Andrault, Pierre Parat (1966-1994). Photo by Roberto Conte.

The brand new book Brutalist Italy, by the architectural photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego and published by FUEL, offers a selection of more than 100 Italian brutalist buildings through 146 images.

For five years the two photographers have traveled more than 20 thousand km through Italy to document the great variety of buildings constructed between the 60s and 80s, from the House of the Port of Naples to the cemetery of Jesi, from the Sanctuary of Monte Grisa in Trieste to the “Washing Machines” of Genoa.

As he writes in his introduction to the book, Adrian Forty, professor emeritus of the History of Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture - University College of London: Italian architects have distinguished themselves from their colleagues abroad for the desire to recognize that concrete could refer to more than one era, not only the future, or the present, but also the past.

Extension of Jesi cemetery. Leonardo Ricci (1984-1994).

Photo by Stefano Perego.

Gesù Redentore Church, Turin. Nicola Mosso, Leonardo Mosso, Livio Norzi (1954-1957).

Photo by Stefano Perego.

Monument to the Resistance, Macerata. Gruppo Marche - Paolo Castelli, Luigi Cristini, Romano Pellei (1969).

Photo by Roberto Conte.

Residential complex Pegli 3 - "The Washing Machines", Genoa. Aldo Luigi Rizzo, Aldo Pino, Andrea Mor, Angelo Sibilla (1980-1989).

Photo by Stefano Perego.

Casa Albero (Tree House), Fregene. Giuseppe Perugini, Raynaldo Perugini and Uga De Plaisant, (1968-1971).

Photo by Stefano Perego.

Atelier-Museum Augusto Murer, Falcade. Giuseppe Davanzo (1970-1971).

Photo by Roberto Conte.

Urban forniture, Collevalenza - Todi. Julio Lafuente (1953-1974).

Photo  by Stefano Perego.

Busto Arsizio Monumental Cemetery's extension. Luigi Ciapparella (1971).

Photo by Stefano Perego.

Sanctuary of Madonna delle Lacrime, Siracusa. Michel Andrault, Pierre Parat (1966-1994).

Photo by Roberto Conte.