Brutalism, which flourished from the 1950s until around 1980, is one style that has taught me a lot. Brutalist buildings emphasize form using assemblies of monumental geometric shapes.
Historian Nikolaus Pevsner once said, ‘A cow shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is architecture’. By turning the ...
The General Services Administration's briefly available list of DC federal buildings it hoped to sell included many designed ...
She said: "Social media and image-sharing platforms are helping people see the brutalism style in a different way. There are more coffee table books on the architecture, too, as opposed to ...
The exposed, poured-in-place “raw” concrete—béton brut—of which they were wholly or partially constructed accounts for “brutalism,” the name by which the architectural craze these buildings launched ...
Culture is a vulture. In the architecture world, it's all about the re-appreciation of brutalism. The revival has been relatively swift—the verdict swinging from condemnation and demolition to ...
His contempt for brutalism isn’t surprising, given that it is mostly associated with 1960s-era government and university ...
Brutalism had its heyday 60 years ago, but this polarizing style of architecture is back in the spotlight. At the Oscars, ...
I should be happy. It is exceedingly rare to have a major Hollywood film take architecture as its central subject, and this ...
The architectural form that everyone loves to hate is in the spotlight once again following Adrien Brody's Oscar win for The ...
He appears to have overlooked the fact that there may not be enough civil servants left after his mass firings to fill the ...
Brutalism emphasizes massiveness, challenging lightness. There is an almost tedious anchoring in brutalist architecture, a ...