{"id":113968,"date":"2025-09-02T10:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/113968\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T10:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:33:07","slug":"stefano-peregos-book-captures-modernist-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/113968\/","title":{"rendered":"stefano perego&#8217;s book captures modernist architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concrete, mon amour: The Raw Imprint of Modernism<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Italian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/photography\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">photographer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/stefano-perego\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stefano Perego<\/a> presents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/concrete-architecture-and-design\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Concrete<\/a>, mon amour: The Raw Imprint of Modernism, a photographic study of modernist concrete architecture spanning 98 buildings across 29 countries. Documented over ten years between 2015 and 2025, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/designboom-book-reports\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">book<\/a> explores the formal and material language of concrete structures built in the mid-to-late 20th century \u2014 monolithic constructions that reflect the architectural ambition and ideological shifts of the era. Through a deliberately raw visual approach, Perego focuses on the expressive geometries, surface textures, and spatial presence of these buildings, from urban landmarks to isolated outposts.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1149151 size-full lazyload\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"stefano perego captures a decade of modernist architecture\" width=\"818\" height=\"545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/concrete-mon-amour-stefano-perego-photo-book-modernist-designboom-02.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>Medical center, by architect \u00c1goston Mikl\u00f3s, 1981. Budapest, Hungary. photo: Stefano Perego, Concrete Mon Amour, Gestalten 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stefano Perego explores layered meanings behind constructions<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The book organizes its subjects without privileging fame or recognition, instead offering a broad view of how concrete was used to shape civic, religious, residential, and infrastructural environments. Each structure is photographed in its current state, whether well-preserved or visibly weathered, providing visual insight into the endurance and evolution of these architectural forms over time. Beyond documenting aesthetics, Concrete, mon amour by Stefano Perego also interrogates the layered meanings behind the constructions. Some appear as enduring symbols of progressive vision, while others reveal associations with political power and cultural transformation. The book frames concrete not just as a material choice but as a medium of expression \u2014 at once brutal and intentional, utilitarian and sculptural.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stepegphotography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The IItalian photographer<\/a> ultimately highlights the complexity of modernist legacies: how the permanence of concrete continues to prompt reflection on the ideals, ambitions, and contradictions embedded within the built environment. The publication is both a visual archive and an invitation to reconsider the impact and relevance of architectural modernism today.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1149150 size-full lazyload\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"stefano perego captures a decade of modernist architecture\" width=\"818\" height=\"545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/concrete-mon-amour-stefano-perego-photo-book-modernist-designboom-01.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>Johannes XXIII church, by architect Heinz Buchmann and sculptor Josef Rikus, 1968. Cologne, Germany. photo: Stefano Perego, Concrete Mon Amour, Gestalten 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1149152 size-full lazyload\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"stefano perego captures a decade of modernist architecture\" width=\"818\" height=\"1023\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/concrete-mon-amour-stefano-perego-photo-book-modernist-designboom-03.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>St. Joseph Church, by architects Marius \u0160aliamoras, K\u0119stutis Akelaitis and Gintaras \u010caikauskas, 2016-2020. Vilnius, Lithuania. photo: Stefano Perego, Concrete Mon Amour, Gestalten 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1149153 size-full lazyload\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"stefano perego captures a decade of modernist architecture\" width=\"818\" height=\"1023\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/concrete-mon-amour-stefano-perego-photo-book-modernist-designboom-04.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>Saint Nicholas church, by architect Walter Maria F\u00f6rderer, 1962-1971. H\u00e9r\u00e9mence, Switzerland. photo: Stefano Perego, Concrete Mon Amour, gestalten 2025.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Concrete, mon amour: The Raw Imprint of Modernism \u00a0 Italian photographer Stefano Perego presents Concrete, mon amour: The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[49207,76,354,355,49,48,13420,356,51377,75,10000,64211],"class_list":{"0":"post-113968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-architectural-photography","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-concrete-architecture-and-design","15":"tag-design","16":"tag-designboom-book-reports","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-photography","19":"tag-stefano-perego"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}