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 ...
Some are fascinated by Brutalism's simple geometric shapes and raw, exposed concrete — while others can't stand it. What makes this architectural style so divisive?
His contempt for brutalism isn’t surprising, given that it is mostly associated with 1960s-era government and university ...
The building has since been remodeled to cloak the Brutalist design. In the U.K., cities faced damages from Nazi bombing during World War II as well as long-deferred upgrades to public housing.
Brutalism was the welfare state in Britain and authoritarian rule in the Soviet Union. In the United States, it appears in the F.B.I. building, Paul Rudolph’s Boston Government Service Center ...
The building has since been remodeled to cloak the Brutalist design. In the U.K., cities faced damages from Nazi bombing during World War II as well as long-deferred upgrades to public housing.
Brutalism, which flourished from the 1950s ... direct expression of structure, and building materials that were valued for their own traits. In “The Brutalist,” Tóth’s insistence on plain ...
Brutalist architecture in the United States is a monument to collective postwar optimism and reassurance that the city and federal governments are in authority. Conceived as an embodiment of ...
Capital Brutalism focuses on eight structures. Breuer’s HHS and HUD buildings rank among them, as does the FBI building. Also figuring in the exhibit is the Energy Department’s James Forrestal ...
In any event, Brutalism has had its run, which all in all is a good thing, though some of the “Post-Modernist’’ architecture ...