Raw exposed concrete, simple geometric shapes: What some find beautiful, others find ugly. Brutalist architecture divides opinion. The question now is: demolish or preserve?Among this year's top ...

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 ...

In a garden city near Milan, Giada Nava explains how her parent’s house, a modernist villa, shines amongst its Art Nouveau ...

that changed the course of modernist architecture. The exposed, poured-in-place “raw” concrete—béton brut—of which they were wholly or partially constructed accounts for “brutalism,” the name by which ...

She says, one of the pioneers of brutalism, Le Corbusier, coined the term beton brut, which roughly translates to raw concrete. PERSON: What he meant was this idea of pared back architecture that ...

The fact that concrete is a traditional part of the brutalist aesthetic doesn't help. It puts people in mind of bunkers. Though as Gabrielle Esperdy, dean and professor of architecture at the ...

Using architecture as scaffold ... is a monumental brutalist structure, meaning it is made from raw, unadorned concrete and echoes the basic geometric lines employed by Le Corbusier and Marcel ...

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 ...

On a steep slope in, Pretoria, this perfectly preserved 1970s home is part new Brutalist concrete sculpture, part tropical ...

Churches are so much more than concrete, brick and glass; and none more than those created in post-war Scotland. Across the ...