Few can agree on whether Brutalist architecture looks nice, but seemingly everyone wants to weigh in on the matter. In 2020, for example, US President Donald Trump targeted Brutalist architecture in ...
A newly built home rivals the Hollywood sign. L-shaped cantilevers extend the house over a steep hillside in the Hollywood Hills. The four-story concrete home is designed to be symbiotic with nature ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover creative people, places and projects around the world. Hulking raw concrete, impossibly rigid lines and an undeniable ...
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, ...
RALEIGH — Among the scores of buildings here, the city will soon lose its "ugliest." At least that’s the description some residents have bestowed, somewhat admiringly, upon the ill-fated Bath Building ...
After World War II, the Franco-Swiss architect who went by the name of Le Corbusier erected brazenly expressionistic buildings, including an 18-floor Marseilles housing project and a hilltop ...
Efforts to preserve the Brutalist architecture and crumbling campus of UMass Dartmouth Built in the 1960s by architect Paul Rudolph, UMass Dartmouth was his tribute to “raw concrete” and the Brutalist ...
"The Brutalist," an epic drama loosely inspired by the life and work of architect Marcel Breuer, is one of the favorites for the Oscars. But the film has drawn scorn from design experts, who accuse it ...
In constructing The Brutalist, his epic of assimilation and survival, Brady Corbet sought a sense of scale large enough to reflect the ambitious vision of László Tóth, a fictional Hungarian-Jewish ...
Rising steeply above a ravine in the Hollywood Hills, Nina and Andreas Grueter’s concrete home conjures a villain’s lair in a James Bond thriller — John Lautner’s Brutalist Elrod House in “Diamonds ...