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Few can agree on whether Brutalist architecture looks nice, but seemingly everyone wants to weigh in on the matter. In 2020, for example, US President Donald Trump targeted Brutalist architecture ...
Adrien Brody in The Brutalist. Photo: A24/Courtesy Everett Collection Adrien Brody in The Brutalist. Photo: A24/Courtesy Everett Collection But heavy-handed motif-wielding has its limits, and The ...
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.
Efforts to preserve the Brutalist architecture and crumbling campus of UMass Dartmouth Built in the 1960s by architect Paul Rudolph, UMass Dartmouth was his tribute to “raw concrete” and the ...
He really hates the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., for example, which is Brutalist in its heavy concrete structure, and very small windows strategically placed so that light comes in at ...
Brutalist architecture is defined by its raw concrete forms and stripped-back geometric components, which make for a bold exterior. Whether seen as a grey eyesore or a powerful visual, there's no ...
German architecture studio Demo Working Group chose to use cool tones and reflective surfaces to provide a subtle contrast to the heavy concrete walls inside this apartment in Cologne.
The author designed the Jewish Museum in Berlin and New York’s post-9/11 Ground Zero plan and is an expert on the intersection of architecture and film. It is seldom that one enters a film that ...
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.