The landscape, the food we eat—this whole country is rotten.” And so it goes until the very end, when Corbet unveils his ...
Few can agree on whether Brutalist architecture looks nice, but seemingly everyone wants to weigh in on the matter. In 2020, ...
What makes a building Brutalist? “Brutalism” comes from the French word for untreated or exposed concrete, “béton brut.” Although there is some disagreement over where the term comes from ...
The style emerged in post-war Europe where large-scale reconstruction was underway. Le Corbusier, who designed Chandigarh, ...
Brutalism is a style of architecture referring to the vast, grey structures associated with Britain's post-war period and was supposedly named after the French 'beton brut' meaning raw concrete.
The Brutalism set is inspired by the massive utopian forms and material palette of the Brutalist architects, who used raw concrete as their material of choice. Blockitecture® Brutalism includes 6 ...
Capital Brutalism, an exhibit on view through February 17 at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., amply demonstrates why. Brutalist buildings are unornamented concrete hulks.
Today the campus remains one of the most prominent examples of Brutalism locally. Memories of Durfee High:Fall River's worst building gave students brutal but concrete life lessons B.M.C. Durfee ...
Pasnik is coauthor the book "Heroic," which looks at City Hall and other local examples of brutalism, or concrete modernism. ”There’s still lots of people who don’t like City Hall ...