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 ...

After World War II, the Franco-Swiss architect who went by the name of Le Corbusier erected brazenly expressionistic buildings, including an 18-floor Marseilles housing project and a hilltop ...

Central to the plot of the director Brady Corbet’s new drama, “The Brutalist,” is an enormous structure known as the Van Buren Institute. A24 Situated in Pennsylvania, it is made of concrete.

As with Hawaiian shirts and Lionel Richie, it's always a testament to the fickle whims of fashion and fancy when something way out of style becomes so beloved again. Culture is a vulture.

The Brutalist won a trio of Oscars last night, but it failed to say anything meaningful about architecture, writes Edwin Heathcote. The Brutalist tries hard to be an epic movie. And how often do ...

The film “The Brutalist” continued to make headlines this week with actor Adrien Brody winning the Academy Award for Best Actor. The film is about a Hungarian architect escaping World War ll ...

This story was originally published on Dec. 19, 2024. We're bringing it back after "The Brutalist" won the Oscars for best actor (Adrien Brody), best original score (Daniel Blumberg) and best ...

The Oscar-nominated postwar story of an autocratic immigrant architect in the US unwittingly mirrors Donald Trump’s edict on public buildings In December 2020, during the final days of his first ...