The title of “The Brutalist,” Brady Corbet’s big swing of an American epic, refers to many things. Any builder who works in the imposing minimalist school of post-World War II architecture known as ...

Brutalism has a bad name. That may be, in part, because it is a bad name. This polarizing architectural style of the 1950s and '60s is the subject of the the film "The Brutalist," nominated for 10 ...

Brutalist architecture emerged in the 1950s as a post-war response in a period of rebuilding and reimagining the world. Characterized by harsh geometric shapes and an emphasis on exposed building ...

Perhaps the most famous Brutalist building in the United States is the J. Edgar Hoover Building. Brutalist architecture is characterized by raw concrete walls, imposing geometrism and repetition, ...

“The Brutalist,” produced by Brady Corbet, consisted of two parts that tackled pertinent topics like class struggle, the American ego and the role of artists in a capitalist economy. Using the lens of ...

In spite of the extraordinary runtime of Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist (a three and a half hour epic that includes an intermission), the film has been making quite the buzz during the 2025 awards ...

“The Brutalist” is an epic drama that follows the life of fictional Hungarian Jewish emigrant and Bauhaus architect László Tóth (Adrien Brody) in the United States after World War II. The film ...

“The making of a good building,” observed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, “is a great moral performance.” Like many notable quotes about architecture, it speaks to grandeur, permanence, scale. One ...

Credit: Directed by Brady Corbet, starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce. Rating/Runtime: R for strong sexual content, graphic nudity, rape, drug use and some language. 215 minutes, ...

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