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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 ...
In 2022, a group of German museums, non-profits, and trade magazines came together to launch #SOSBrutalism, a campaign to save Brutalist architecture around the world from demolition. Where others ...
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 ...
Architects may groan at the depiction of their profession in “The Brutalist,” an enormously ambitious, epically scaled film about an imaginary Hungarian architect, László Toth. Played by ...
Michael Allen is an Advisor to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Some viewers of “The Brutalist” are probably getting their first taste of Brutalism, the architectural style that ...
Some are fascinated by Brutalism's simple geometric shapes and raw, exposed concrete — while others can't stand it. What makes this architectural style so divisive? That name comes not from the ...
We have a contrary opinion of brutalist architecture. Sounds awful when you say it - btutalist. It's a deliberately plain style. Nobody decorates the raw building materials. So you typically see a ...
One characteristic, though, is universally agreed upon: Brutalism is polarizing. For decades, people have argued over the architectural style’s virtues or lack thereof, and whether Brutalist ...