Historian Nikolaus Pevsner once said, ‘A cow shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is architecture’. By turning the ...
Its raw concrete exterior, modular design and cavernous interior spaces contrast starkly with the historic brick buildings surrounding it. Simonson noted: "The brutalist style of Boston City Hall ...
Adrien Brody's Oscar-winning movie embodies an architectural movement that embraces the raw and the unadorned. And at the ...
It amounted to a viral reaction against the tidy reductionism of modernism’s own glass-walled box. Many of America’s brutalist buildings now present a choice between expensive renovation and ...
Brutalism is the techno music of architecture, stark and menacing. Brutalist buildings are expensive to maintain and difficult to destroy. They can't be easily remodeled or changed, so they tend ...
Call them monuments, foreign elements, eyesores — Brutalist buildings have become another battleground in President Trump’s culture war. The F.B.I. headquarters at the J. Edgar Hoover Building ...
Drawings and photographs of real-life Brutalist buildings appear in several scenes as glimpses into Tóth’s originality and style. But the structures come across as the progeny of one architect ...
To some observers, the buildings appear coarse, intimidating and unapproachable, recalling bunkers. Adrien Brody (center) stars in the 2024 film 'The Brutalist,' directed by Brady Corbet Image ...
Generations of buildings have been raised, then razed, during the slow and constant process of urban development. More than five decades after their heyday, the brutalist buildings of North ...