So, what is Brutalism and why did it even matter enough to warrant an embargo? To put it in simple terms, Brutalist architecture makes use of exposed, unpainted concrete or brick, with an emphasis ...
It stood as a touchstone of Brutalism, an offshoot of the Modernist movement that shunned smooth metal-and-glass curtain walls in favor of rough-hewn concrete facades. Emerging from the breakneck ...
Even before then, however, people couldn't stop talking about Brutalism. "Brutalism Is Back," read one 2016 headline for a story published by T: The New York Times Style Magazine. The movement has ...
Born out of the ubiquity of concrete and a love for functional shapes, the architecture of Brutalism is frequently misunderstood. The very term seems to attract us for all the wrong reasons ...
Brutalism is indeed a real mid-century architectural movement, but the film just dances around this history, and none of the specific happenings in the film actually occurred. One of the reasons ...
And it’s a nice cinema, isn’t it? This willingness to indulge technical inaccuracies is significant because The Brutalist isn’t really about brutalism either. Architecture is the device to explore ...