Roberto Conte s latest photography series explores Madrid s brutalist architecture to draw attention to a style not usually associated with the Spanish capital.
The photographer, whose work often depicts concrete modernist and brutalist buildings, captured a selection of Madrileño brutalism that includes the Torres Blancas by Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíz and a Le Corbusier-informed church by Cecilio Sanchez-Robles Taríns.
Top image: the Cultural Heritage Institute of Spain. Above: the Beatriz building from 1968
Conte first visited Madrid in 2008, when he was struck by the city s vibrant energy as well as its architecture, and returned last year. In the summer of quite a challenging year, 2020, I had a job assignment in the Castile region and I considered it also as a great opportunity to finally dedicate some time to discover more of this beautiful city, he told Dezeen.
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