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Brutalism has a bad name. That may be, in part, because it is a bad name. This polarizing architectural style of the 1950s and '60s is the subject of the the film "The Brutalist," nominated for 10 ...
Few can agree on whether Brutalist architecture looks nice, but seemingly everyone wants to weigh in on the matter. In 2020, for example, US President Donald Trump targeted Brutalist architecture ...
Boston City Hall Built in 1968 by Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles, Boston City Hall is one of the most controversial examples of brutalist architecture. Its raw concrete exterior, modular design and ...
In Providence, a small number of its Brutalist Buildings are still standing. Brutalism, a style of architecture popularized in the 1950s and 60s, is fading in many parts of the country. In ...
Corbet’s depiction of architecture as a profession is painfully dated, based on a handful of 20th century messianic figures who sought not just to make buildings, but to remake the world ...
Both Megalopolis and The Brutalist bring to mind The Fountainhead, director King Vidor’s 1949 adaptation of the novel by Ayn Rand, and until now the most prominent Hollywood film about an architect.
Humans being the wayward creatures we are, however, our deeply ingrained sensory responses to built form can be overridden or suppressed by influencers du jour or academic indoctrination. Politicized ...
The Brutalist ending explained: The epilogue takes place over 20 years later, in 1980, at the first ever Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is doing a retrospective on László’s work.
“The Brutalist” is also an American immigration tale, as well as catnip for anyone with a passing interest in architecture or design. Director Corbet wastes no time handing us his thematic ...
‘The Brutalist’: Venice Winner Brady Corbet Opens Up About the Tireless Seven-Year Journey Behind His Buzzy Epic The acclaimed film, which has secured U.S. distribution with A24, stars Adrien ...