Sierra Madre Hall - 113

Sierra Madre Hall (Bldg 113) Completion Date: 1973 Square Feet: 104,000 Architect: Corwin Booth & Associates, Architects Construction System: Concrete frame and exterior Construction Cost: $3,189,000 Architectural Style: Postmodern, Brutalism Cal Poly President: Robert E. Kennedy (1967-1978) 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.;