A Future City From The Past

Looming concrete forms stretch to the horizon, casting shadows across deserted motorways, their articulated facades and pitch black windows bathed in an ominous, silent gloom. No life, just architecture.

These bleak black and white landscapes, dominated by the imposing geometric structures of the scaleless super-Brutalist megacity, overwhelm with their uncompromising, overpowering corporeality.

German artist Clemens Gritl imagines an enigmatic vision of radically aggressive futuristic urban dystopias – a merciless extension of Brutalist dogma

Inspired by the revolutionary social visions of mid-century architecture, as well as literary works like J.G. Ballard’s High-rise and Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, Gritl’s detailed 3D computer models refract and redefine the “urban utopias” of the 20th century. His digital scaffolds erect disturbing architectural possibilities for an imagined urban future, reminiscent of the dark atmospheres found in sci-fi films such as Blade Runner or Clockwork Orange.