In the architecture world, it's all about the re-appreciation of brutalism. The revival has been relatively swift—the verdict ...
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 ...
Michael Allen, West Virginia University (THE CONVERSATION) Some viewers of “The Brutalist” are probably getting their first taste of Brutalism, the architectural style that gives the film its ...
While other architectural movements showed reverence for history — neo-Classical for ancient Greece and Rome, Gothic Revival for the Middle Ages — Brutalism was about modernity. It made use of ...
Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis and Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist are wildly different in tone and tenor, but both revolve around a putative architectural ... onto modern New York City.) ...
I should be happy. It is exceedingly rare to have a major Hollywood film take architecture as its central subject, and this ...
In “The Brutalist,” Brody plays the fictional László Tóth, an exiled student of the influential Bauhaus school of modern architecture in Germany, which was shut down as subversive by the ...
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 ...
(THE CONVERSATION) Some viewers of “The Brutalist” are probably getting their first taste of Brutalism, the architectural ... expressed faith in modern democracy, giving the majestic ...