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 ...

Raw exposed concrete, simple geometric shapes: What some find beautiful, others find ugly. Brutalist architecture divides ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beyond the Instagrammable juxtaposition of stark concrete and tumbling greenery, how does this architectural movement address ...

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 ...

Fast-forward a few decades, however, and it's back as a desired stylistic pose—or perhaps a concrete bunker in which we can all take shelter. Brutalism is the techno music of architecture ...

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 ...