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Churches are so much more than concrete, brick and glass; and none more than those created in post-war Scotland. Across the ...
Rob Fiehn watches My Master Builder at London's Wyndham’s theatre and finds some disturbing 'starchitect' familiarities ...
That said, The Brutalist is a historical fiction drama inspired by the post-war architectural style known as Brutalist architecture, and the way it was inspired and shaped by the Holocaust.In an ...
Philippine brutalism is having a quiet revival. Brutalist architecture and concrete finishes are in vogue again. Walls are being left unpainted – on purpose! Buildings once dismissed as eyesores are ...
Mediocre architecture now rules, and there is no sign of a Corbusier, who left his imprint on Chandigarh, anywhere on the horizon. In the new Oscar-winning movie, ‘The Brutalist’, the story ...
The Brutalist tries hard to be an epic movie. And how often do we get an epic about an architect? Pretty much never. But it is not, I'm afraid, an epic movie about architecture.
The facade of St John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota. The church is finding new fame as the basis for the film, The Brutalist, about an immigrant architect who is haunted by the Holocaust.
Surprisingly, almost no Brutalist architecture appears in 'The Brutalist' – until we glimpse Toth's completed masterpiece at the end of the three-and-a-half-hour film. Photo: AFP ...
The Brutalist, it turns out, is not Tóth or his architecture style, it’s the capitalist, Harrison Van Buren. Article content But the grim ending is followed by an upbeat “Epilogue” set in Venice in ...
02/25/2025 February 25, 2025. 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?
Surprisingly, almost no Brutalist architecture appears in “The Brutalist” – until the audience glimpses Toth’s completed masterpiece at the end of the three-and-a-half-hour film.
Surprisingly, almost no Brutalist architecture appears in The Brutalist ... that look like gun parapets" or "a bunch of boxes piled up," rather than his extraordinary church. ...