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.

The term is believed to come from "beton brut," French for raw concrete. Surprisingly, almost no Brutalist architecture appears ... architectural historian, my head is still spinning apart from ...

The exposed, poured-in-place “raw” concrete—béton brut—of which they ... recesses meant to harmonize with Washington’s classical architecture. Not exactly what you’d expect of a brutalist project.

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 ...

During the baby boomer’s expansionist era, in a bold bid to expand, USC replaced its beloved brick heritage with unyielding ...

(The term comes from the French for raw concrete ... In “The Brutalist,” Brody plays the fictional László Tóth, an exiled student of the influential Bauhaus school of modern architecture ...

The Cite Radieuse was just the beginning. Well into the 1970s, brutalist architecture dominated new construction worldwide. Concrete was affordable, and the unadorned forms meant a relatively ...

As “The Brutalist” heads into Oscar night with 10 nominations, Hollywood is clamoring for its next big architecture hit. Our illustrator has some ideas. By Michael Lukk Litwak Viewership ...

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