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What distinguishes Italian Brutalist buildings from their counterparts in other countries? Featuring over 140 exclusive photographs—ranging from private homes to churches and cemeteries, to football stadiums—across every region of the country, *Brutalist Italy* is the first publication to focus entirely on this subject. Architectural photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego (authors of *Soviet Asia*) have spent the last five years traveling over 12,000 miles to document the monumental concrete structures of their native country.
Brutalism—with its minimalist aesthetic, favoring raw materials and structural elements over decorative design—has a complex relationship with Italian history. After World War II, Italian architects were eager to distance themselves from fascism, without rejecting the architectural modernism that had flourished during that era. They developed a contemporary architectural style
