Beyond the Instagrammable juxtaposition of stark concrete and tumbling greenery, how does this architectural movement address ...

Raw exposed concrete, simple geometric shapes: What some find beautiful, others find ugly. Brutalist architecture divides ...

Brutalist architecture, known for its raw concrete, geometric forms and imposing presence, has gained a renewed interest in the modern age of social media and more recently through the film The ...

Why so much concrete? One reason Brutalist architecture took off was because of the relatively low cost of the materials involved. At a time when the destruction of World War II had left budgets ...

that changed the course of modernist architecture. The exposed, poured-in-place “raw” concrete—béton brut—of which they were wholly or partially constructed accounts for “brutalism,” the name by which ...

The fact that concrete is a traditional part of the brutalist aesthetic doesn't help. It puts people in mind of bunkers. Though as Gabrielle Esperdy, dean and professor of architecture at the ...

Fast-forward a few decades, however, and it's back as a desired stylistic pose—or perhaps a concrete bunker in which we can all take shelter. Brutalism is the techno music of architecture ...

The Archway theatres building at Otago University is a particularly special one in NZ. So why does the university want to demolish it?

Specifically, my work explores how architecture after World ... valued for their own traits. In “The Brutalist,” Tóth’s insistence on plain concrete, as well as Cararra marble for the ...

Whatever the challenges of dramatizing architecture as a subject ... It’s less brutalist — a style that exploits the plasticity of concrete to create visual drama — than simply brutish ...