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.

UPDATED: January 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM CST “The Brutalist” is many things: some blunt, others loose and dangling, still others richly provocative, most of them remarkable.

In 2020, for example, US President Donald Trump targeted Brutalist architecture in an executive order that demanded that all future federal buildings be done in a "classical architectural style ...

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 ...

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.

Adrien Brody in The Brutalist. Photo: A24/Courtesy Everett Collection The Brutalist is about architecture in the way that Citizen Kane is about sledding.

Entertainment Like architecture itself, ‘The Brutalist’ is an epic exercise in ambition and grandeur Published: Jan. 09, 2025, 8:33 a.m.

'The Brutalist' is up for 10 Oscars. But real brutalist architecture is seldom celebrated. Here are some local examples in the tristate area.