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Plant-based architecture is clearly having a moment ... The use of trees, plants, and other greenery transforms brutalist structures into eco-brutalist ones. Where plants flourish, wildlife ...
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 ...
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 ...
So, for me, Brutalist architecture is representative of something that people do not understand and that they want torn down and ripped away. And I think it’s just really fascinating.
But the English associations of the word "brutal" give "brutalist" architecture a forbidding sound. Imagine a brutalist building, and you imagine something harsh, cruel, barbaric. A not-nice building.
For me, The Brutalist is such a film. It combines the themes of the Holocaust, Israel, immigration, capitalism, architecture, and the struggles to make sense of it all. The film depicts a ...
While you're waiting to see the movie, there are a few examples of actual Brutalist architecture to tide you over: The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth: Architect Paul Rudolph began ...
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 ...
Harry Weese’s stations for Washington’s Metro subway system are vaulted spaces with coffer-like rectangular recesses meant to harmonize with Washington’s classical architecture. Not exactly what you’d ...
Of course, that’s not all. “The Brutalist,” which takes its name from the raw style of architecture that Tóth creates, is also about the incalculable trauma that followed World War II.