Architecture & Environmental Design Building - 005

Architecture & Environmental Design (bldg 005) Completion Date: 1974 Square Feet: 67,585 Architect: Burde, Shaw & Associates General Contractor: E.A. Hathaway Construction System: Concrete frame, concrete and transite exterior Construction Cost: $4,765,860 Architectural Style: Postmodern, Brutalism Cal Poly President: Robert E. Kennedy (1967-1979) Although the word Brutalism comes from the French word for rough concrete (beton brut), a sense of brutality is also suggested by this style. Brutalist structures are heavy and unrefined with coarsely molded surfaces, usually exposed concrete. Their highly sculptural shapes tend to be crude and blocky, often colliding with one another.;