How these menacing towers of raw concrete that just a few short years ago were considered the ugliest buildings in the world ...

Mark Cavagnero, the founding principal architect of San Francisco-based firm Mark Cavagnero Associates, explained to Newsweek the origins of brutalism, which grew out of the need to quickly ...

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 ...

His contempt for brutalism isn’t surprising, given that it is mostly associated with 1960s-era government and university buildings, hotbeds of resistance to the MAGA program. Hollywood loves ...

But fans say it can also be expressive and forceful. Local examples of brutalism abound, from Journal Square in Jersey City to the former Whitney Museum in Manhattan and college buildings in ...

Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse is supported by massive concrete pilingsImage: MERCIER Serge/picture alliance Brutalism continues to influence international architecture, with contemporary ...

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