His contempt for brutalism isn’t surprising, given that it is mostly associated with 1960s-era government and university buildings, hotbeds of resistance to the MAGA program.

Exploring and learning about the built world around us. The National Building Museum is the only U.S. cultural institution ...

Michael Allen is an Advisor to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Some viewers of “The Brutalist” are probably getting their first taste of Brutalism, the architectural style that ...

Historian Nikolaus Pevsner once said, ‘A cow shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is architecture’. By turning the ...

The General Services Administration's briefly available list of DC federal buildings it hoped to sell included many designed ...

Boston City Hall, which was completed in 1968, is considered a classic example of Brutalist architecture. Yunghi Kim/The Boston Globe via Getty Images ...

The United States' Brutalism emerged during a time of sweeping transformation and unprecedented economic growth. The rapid expansion of metropolitan centers and the ambitions of federal programs ...

Brutalism emphasizes massiveness, challenging lightness. There is an almost tedious anchoring in brutalist architecture, a ...

A Modernist subgenre popular in the United States especially in the 1960s and ’70s, Brutalism is typically defined by poured concrete, blockiness and a minimalist ethos, emphasizing functionality.

(THE CONVERSATION) Some viewers of “The Brutalist” are probably getting their first taste of Brutalism, the architectural style that gives the film its name. The film, which has been nominated ...

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