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.

If you’ve seen a large building made entirely out of concrete built sometime between the 1950s and 1970s, you’ve probably seen the style of architecture known as brutalism. People have a lot of ...

J. Edgar Hoover Building in New York - Eric Lee/Getty Images If buildings like the J. Edgar Hoover Building in New York make you cringe because of their in-your-face blandness, you can understand how ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Brutalist architecture, known for its raw concrete, geometric forms and imposing presence, has gained a renewed interest ...