President Trump wants to ditch concrete monstrosities like the FBI building that uglify Washington DC — and federal agencies ...

Controversy is nothing new for Brutalism, which was itself a form of criticism. While other architectural movements showed reverence for history — neo-Classical for ancient Greece and Rome ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adrien Brody in The Brutalist. Courtesy of A24. One of the most ambitious films of the year, Brady Corbet’s 215-minute psychodrama The Brutalist stars Adrien Brody as László Tóth (Adrien ...

Architects may groan at the depiction of their profession in “The Brutalist,” an enormously ambitious, epically scaled film about an imaginary Hungarian architect, László Toth. Played by ...

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 ...

Why architects appreciate brutalism, even if you don't Many people think brutalist architecture is ugly. Architects make a case for why the buildings shouldn’t be torn down.

An architecture exhibition at the National Building Museum focuses on the stolid, monumental government buildings from Brutalism’s heyday, reminding us of their history and imagining how they ...

‘The Brutalist’ gets architecture wrong, but it gets genius right. Adrien Brody plays an architect with grand visions. We need that ambition. January 10, 2025. 10 min.