Bauhaus architects like Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe fled Nazi Germany, but not all of them went to the US.

Of course, that’s not all. “The Brutalist,” which takes its name from the raw style of architecture that Tóth creates, is also about the incalculable trauma that followed World War II.

In the film, the imaginary building evokes both the best and worst of postwar architecture and brutalism, with camera angles and lighting emphasizing its giant volumes of space and hard geometric ...

It is exceedingly rare to have a major Hollywood film take architecture as its central ... Coppola’s Megalopolis and Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist are wildly different in tone and tenor ...