Brutalist architecture, known for its raw concrete, geometric forms and imposing presence, has gained a renewed interest in the modern age of social media and more recently through the film The ...
Harry Weese’s stations for Washington’s Metro subway system are vaulted spaces with coffer-like rectangular recesses meant to harmonize with Washington’s classical architecture. Not exactly what you’d ...
Brutalist structures not only represent resilience, functionality and timelessness, but also offer modern businesses ...
“You don’t matter. Wear a mask, you’re all the same. Ugly architecture, Brutalist architecture.” The style, he said, “was designed to send that message, not to uplift, but to oppress.
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 ...
I should be happy. It is exceedingly rare to have a major Hollywood film take architecture as its central subject, and this ...
Dallas begins landmarking process for City Hall Mark Lamster on why brutalist civic architecture is worth saving. It’s a dopey, cartoonish vision — why exactly do we need transparent orbs to f ...
The Cite Radieuse was just the beginning. Well into the 1970s, brutalist architecture dominated new construction worldwide. Concrete was affordable, and the unadorned forms meant a relatively ...
As British architecture and design critic Oliver ... cellular towers occupied by floating bubble cars. One particularly emblematic exchange from The Brutalist is conducted in a muddy ditch and in ...
As “The Brutalist” heads into Oscar night with 10 nominations, Hollywood is clamoring for its next big architecture hit. Our illustrator has some ideas. By Michael Lukk Litwak Viewership ...
But the film has drawn scorn from design experts, who accuse it of glaring errors, and question whether its main character is even a Brutalist architect. Here are five things to know about the ...
Surprisingly, almost no Brutalist architecture appears in “The Brutalist” – until the audience glimpses Toth’s completed masterpiece at the end of the three-and-a-half-hour film.