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 ...
Culture is a vulture. In the architecture world, it's all about the re-appreciation of brutalism. The revival has been relatively swift—the verdict swinging from condemnation and demolition to ...
As 2018’s “Atlas of Brutalist Architecture” puts it: “As an architectural philosophy, Brutalism was a gift for socialist utopian ideologues and had a strong presence in the architecture of the former ...
The Cite Radieuse was just the beginning. Well into the 1970s, brutalist architecture dominated new construction worldwide. Concrete was affordable, and the unadorned forms meant a relatively ...
The Brutalist won a trio of Oscars last night, but it failed to say anything meaningful about architecture, writes Edwin Heathcote. The Brutalist tries hard to be an epic movie. And how often do ...
We're bringing it back after "The Brutalist" won the Oscars for best ... It is exceedingly rare to have a major Hollywood film take architecture as its central subject, and this fall — Oscar ...
(Catch up the film's inspiration in our list of the 10 iconic examples of brutalist architecture and read our 'What is colour grading' explainer to understand Máté's work.) Nominated for ten ...
Its architecture, a brutalist, raw and unapologetic high rise, is now Grade II-listed. Now, after a four-year redevelopment, the well-known building recently reopened its doors, and has high ambitions ...
The term is believed to come from "beton brut," French for raw concrete. Surprisingly, almost no Brutalist architecture appears in "The Brutalist" -- until we glimpse Toth's completed masterpiece ...