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Instead of hiding materials behind decorative finishes and ornamentation, Brutalism puts its building blocks front and center ...
Culture is a vulture. In the architecture world, it's all about the re-appreciation of brutalism. The revival has been relatively swift—the verdict swinging from condemnation and demolition to ...
Architects debate the merits of preserving D.C.'s Brutalist landmarks as the federal government considers selling off ...
Zupagrafika's 'Eastern Blocks II' chronicles the brutalist housing estates and public structures of the Eastern Bloc.
From The Fall to Joy Division, we have curated a list of the five greatest songs about brutalism and brutalist architecture. Read more here.
As a part of GW’s expansion of the Foggy Bottom Campus during the 1970s, the architecture firm Mills, Petticord and Mills ...
Washington DC has a large number of significant brutalist buildings. Here, architectural photographer Ty Cole picks eight of the most interesting.
As Renée Loth points out in her excellent column “Trump targets brutalist architecture” (Opinion, March 7), art tends to reflect (or react to) the culture of its time. So, although I am no ...
MANILA, Philippines — After World War II and past the peak of Art Deco, Brutalist architecture reached the Philippines. The movement aimed to use raw, unadorned materials like exposed concrete ...
A recent MAGA order hopes to step away from Brutalist architecture that dominates the design of so many government buildings across the nation . . . There's an interesting debate over this mandate ...
Brutalism emphasizes massiveness, challenging lightness. There is an almost tedious anchoring in brutalist architecture, a certain solid carving of the ...
As cities rebuilt after World War II, Brutalist architecture emerged in the 1950s. "It started first in the U.K., where post-war bombings left many areas in need of quick, affordable housing ...