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, ...
An Obama Foundation official pushed back on criticism of the Obama Presidential Center’s design in a CBS interview, saying ...
At first look, traditional brutalist architecture doesn't feel like an easy fit with plants and nature. But this paradoxical relationship is part of the appeal, hence the buzz around the term ...
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Paul Rudolph’s Orange County Government Center (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Built in 1967, the Orange County Government Center is absolutely gorgeous. Viewed from the south, it’s a ...
Those are the second and third lines spoken in the 1949 film version of Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead,” adapted by Rand, contractually protected from studio meddling, from her 1943 bestseller about the ...