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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adrien Brody in The Brutalist. Photo: A24/Courtesy Everett ... He can’t run his hand lovingly over board-formed concrete, because the surfaces have an impossible blankness.