How these menacing towers of raw concrete that just a few short years ago were considered the ugliest buildings in the world became highly covetable and intensely influential all over again.
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 ...
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 ...
It is, we are supposed to understand, a brutalist building (hence the title). It is not. The building we see taking form (and in the shape of a huge model being lifted in to a presentation ...
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 ...
The General Services Administration’s briefly available list of DC federal buildings it hoped to sell included many designed in the brutalist style characteristic of many local federal structures.
Suzuko Yamada Architects shares that “life and nature are in tension” with the architecture” of the Nakano house. “They exist ...
The main green’s sprawling Brutalist buildings have puzzled students since the school opened in 1966, inspiring urban legends that the campus was built as a monument to Satan, or a Cold War bomb ...
Right from the get-go, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist sets itself up as an epic ... draws dizzying links between the materiality of building elements and the scar tissue generated by displacement.