“Raw concrete or masonry, a limited palette of materials, and the use of enduring construction elements such as stone or ...

Brutalist homes came up everywhere after World War II as a way to provide people with affordable housing, but there's a reason why the design trend didn't last.

Musician Josh Nalis, a producer of classical music concerts and festivals, grew up in such working-class developments, and ...

SOS Brutalism is the first global survey of Brutalist architecture from the 1950s to '70s, and is a rallying cry for preserving these concrete structures. Cover of SOS Brutalism: A Global Survey ...

In 2022, a group of German museums, non-profits, and trade magazines came together to launch #SOSBrutalism, a campaign to save Brutalist architecture around the world from demolition. Where others see ...

As brutalism increasingly influences contemporary aesthetics, Modernist Estates author Stefi Orazi discusses why we shouldn’t take the movement lightly ...

How these menacing towers of raw concrete that just a few short years ago were considered the ugliest buildings in the world became highly covetable and intensely influential all over again.

If there was any lingering doubt that Brutalism — the architectural style derided for everything the name implies — was back in fashion, the “Atlas of Brutalist Architecture” quashes it with a ...

If you ask Washingtonians about the city’s infamous brutalist architecture, it seems that everyone has a strong opinion — and it’s safe to say there are a lot more negative feelings than good. Many ...

In the mornings, they collect paper-pushers and patterns of sun and shade. In the evenings, their shadows swallow entire streets, their surfaces swell with yellow light. Whether humdrum haunts of ...

Depending on who you ask, brutalist buildings like the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C., are little more than misshapen mounds of concrete. But architecture professor Mark Pasnik ...

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