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To appreciate Brutalist architecture is to embrace the essence of things. At first, I looked on the Brutalist buildings of my adopted hometown as little more than habitable parking garages.
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 ideas and concerns, including antisemitism, the plight of refugees ...
A village’s unusual brutalist church will be knocked down without councillors getting a vote — despite the council’s own ...
Brutalist architecture is a style of building design developed in the 1950s in the United Kingdom following World War II. With an emphasis on construction and raw materials, the aesthetic evolved ...
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 Adrien Brody in The Brutalist. Photo: A24/Courtesy Everett Collection But heavy-handed motif-wielding has its limits, and The ...
'The Brutalist' is up for 10 Oscars. But real brutalist architecture is seldom celebrated. Here are some local examples in the tristate area.
“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 ...
That said, The Brutalist is a historical fiction drama inspired by the post-war architectural style known as Brutalist architecture, and the way it was inspired and shaped by the Holocaust.In an ...