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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 ...
But it’s clear from the beginning that architecture in “The Brutalist” is merely a vehicle for a larger set of narrative ...
Few can agree on whether Brutalist architecture looks nice, but seemingly everyone wants to weigh in on the matter. In 2020, ...
By Justin Davidson, New York Magazine’s architecture and classical-music critic since 2007 and was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2002.
Related: AT UNT, brutalist architecture remade with a soft touch. Advertisement. Only in the film’s epilogue — set decades later — do we learn of the design inspiration for the Institute, ...
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.
Meanwhile, the National Building Museum in Washington is offering Capital Brutalism: A Survey of Past, Present and Future Brutalist Architecture in the Nation’s Capital through June 30. It features ...
Many people think brutalist architecture is ugly. Architects make a case for why the buildings shouldn’t be torn down. Why brutalist buildings should stay, even if people think they're ugly If ...
A monument of independent filmmaking is coming to a cinema near you. Brady Corbet’s 3.5-hour-long, seven-years-in-the-making historical epic The Brutalist finally secured a U.S. distribution ...
But it’s clear from the beginning that architecture in “The Brutalist” is merely a vehicle for a larger set of narrative ideas and concerns, including antisemitism, the plight of refugees ...