Brutal Wales

Representing anew era in Simon Phipps ongoing photographic survey of the UK comes BrutalWales - perhaps his most visually stunning book yet. With a hugevariety of form, detail and photographic atmosphere this is a tribute to notonly an era of architecture and a period of political optimism but also aspecifically Welsh style and rugged substance.From Conwy Civic Hall to Trostre Steelworks, Tredegar Library to Newport Bridgethere are over 60 structures, some, like Margam Crematorium have been rarelyphotographed and others, such as an electricity substation in Swansea, are hardly known.Beautifully produced and with a new format as befits a devolved nation withinthe United Kingdom, the book also contains introductory essays in both Welsh andEnglish.