The Pyramid of Tirana, originally built as a museum dedicated to the communist ... and demonstrates that historic brutalist buildings are ideal for reuse. The project also meets a number of the ...

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 ...

“You don’t matter. Wear a mask, you’re all the same. Ugly architecture, Brutalist architecture.” The style, he said, “was designed to send that message, not to uplift, but to oppress.

The Cite Radieuse was just the beginning. Well into the 1970s, brutalist architecture dominated new construction worldwide. Concrete was affordable, and the unadorned forms meant a relatively ...

His contempt for brutalism isn’t surprising, given that it is mostly associated with 1960s-era government and university ...

Dallas begins landmarking process for City Hall Mark Lamster on why brutalist civic architecture is worth saving. It’s a dopey, cartoonish vision — why exactly do we need transparent orbs to ferry us ...

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 ...

Brutalist architecture in the United States is a monument to collective postwar optimism and reassurance that the city and federal governments are in authority. Conceived as an embodiment of ...

Brutalist architecture divides opinion. The question now is: demolish or preserve? That name comes not from the style's generally rugged, massive and radical look, but from its original raw ...

Yet “The Brutalist” doesn’t relay much about Brutalist architecture beyond its reflexive relationship to Tóth. Drawings and photographs of real-life Brutalist buildings appear in several ...