Terrace on the Park, Flushing Meadows, Queens. Photo: Owen Davies Terrace on the Park, Flushing Meadows, Queens. Photo: Owen Davies Owen Davies moved from the U.K. to New York in early March 2020 ...

Brutalism takes its name from béton brut—yet another French term—meaning raw concrete, its surfaces left intentionally coarse. During its heyday in the 1960s, the style was virtually ...

Few architectural styles provoke as much debate as Brutalism. Once seen as stark and imposing, its unapologetic use of raw concrete and geometric forms is now experiencing a renaissance.

Photographer Simon Phipps’ Finding Brutalism is perhaps the most straightforward. Phipps presents a less glamorous take on British concrete architecture, unafraid to portray this architecture rather ...

The style peaked from the 1950s to the 1980s, tracking with post-war growth and, eventually, the Marcos regime. Under martial law, Brutalism was co-opted into state architecture: heavy, imposing, and ...

Brutalism is possibly the most-maligned architectural style of all. ... with concrete façades often being sandblasted to create a stone-like surface, covered in stucco, ...

The brooding, concrete aesthetic suddenly feels right. Here, what’s behind the revival—and how to pull it off without turning your backyard retreat into a totalitarian bunker. Skip to Main Content ...

If you’ve seen a large building made entirely out of concrete built sometime between the 1950s and 1970s, you’ve probably seen the style of architecture known as brutalism. People have a lot ...

Socialist nations in the 1960s and 1970s quickly jumped on the brutalism trend, using the unpretentious aesthetic of concrete to symbolize equality and a rejection of the bourgeois. Drawing on these ...

Concrete – it is a building material consisting of a binder, an aggregate and water, the first two of which may be of different types and compositions. There are records saying that concrete was ...

Since Brutalism eschews ornamentation, texture becomes a critical design element. Rough concrete surfaces, brushed metals, and unfinished wood add depth and visual interest. Read the original ...