What’s striking about this list of officially acceptable builders is the name it glaringly omitted: the most beloved—and most ...

Amidst the traditional streets of Antwerp, where centuries-old townhouses stand as remnants of a historic European city, a ...

By turning the definition on its head, Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier could say with equal ... a legitimate architecture movement. The term brutalism, characterised by mass, roughness and ...

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.

Yet this method would still appear valid in criticizing recent European architecture where the elaboration of space and form has continued without abatement; and the chapel by Le Corbusier may ...

Under Covers by Karamuk Kuo during Beta 2024, curated by Oana Stanescu. Image © Bianca Purice Azap & Dan Purice The philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre coined ...

Postwar Europe turned to brutalism for large-scale, low-cost reconstruction―spawning courts, legislatures, universities, apartment blocks. By the 1950s, architects like Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn ...

Brutalism in Europe is often associated with housing projects, such as Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation in Marseille, completed in 1952. This monumental concrete structure, with its mix of ...

His contempt for brutalism isn’t surprising, given that it is mostly associated with 1960s-era government and university buildings, hotbeds of resistance to the MAGA program. Hollywood loves ...

The Hoover Building “reimagined” by a Gensler design team (2012), from the Capital Brutalism exhibit (Photo: Courtesy of Gensler) Neither of these exhibits provides an adequate idea of the impact Le ...