The landscape, the food we eat—this whole country is rotten.” And so it goes until the very end, when Corbet unveils his ...
Few can agree on whether Brutalist architecture looks nice, but seemingly everyone wants to weigh in on the matter. In 2020, ...
Socialist nations in the 1960s and 1970s quickly jumped on the brutalism trend, using the unpretentious aesthetic of concrete to symbolize equality and a rejection of the bourgeois. Drawing on these ...
The style emerged in post-war Europe where large-scale reconstruction was underway. Le Corbusier, who designed Chandigarh, ...
Brutalism is a style of architecture referring to the vast, grey structures associated with Britain's post-war period and was supposedly named after the French 'beton brut' meaning raw concrete.
Capital Brutalism, an exhibit on view through February 17 at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., amply demonstrates why. Brutalist buildings are unornamented concrete hulks.
Today the campus remains one of the most prominent examples of Brutalism locally. Memories of Durfee High:Fall River's worst building gave students brutal but concrete life lessons B.M.C. Durfee ...
The work of US architect Paul Rudolph is the subject of an excellent exhibition at the New York Met. Review by David Brady ...
said he was fascinated by brutalism in particular — a popular, yet polarizing, mid-century architectural movement that prioritizes large, rough surfaces and raw concrete exposure. Why brutalism?
Pasnik is coauthor the book "Heroic," which looks at City Hall and other local examples of brutalism, or concrete modernism. ”There’s still lots of people who don’t like City Hall ...