Few can agree on whether Brutalist architecture looks nice, but seemingly everyone wants to weigh in on the matter. In 2020, ...
Of course, that’s not all. “The Brutalist,” which takes its name from the raw style of architecture that Tóth creates, is ...
The Brady Corbet movie starring Adrian Brody is inspired by the post-War architectural style called Brutalism, which found ...
Adrien Brody plays an architect with grand visions. We need that ambition.
Adrien Brody in The Brutalist. Photo: A24/Courtesy Everett Collection Adrien Brody in The Brutalist. Photo: A24/Courtesy Everett Collection But heavy-handed motif-wielding has its limits ...
Adrien Brody stars in Brady Corbet’s epic drama about a brilliant architect from Budapest hired by a dangerous capitalist ...
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 ...
“The Brutalist” is also an American immigration tale, as well as catnip for anyone with a passing interest in architecture or design. Director Corbet wastes no time handing us his thematic ...
But how much of The Brutalist is based on a true story? That said, the Holocaust, immigration, and post-war modern architecture are all very real things. The Brutalist is a historical fiction ...
It is exceedingly rare to have a major Hollywood film take architecture as its central ... Coppola’s Megalopolis and Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist are wildly different in tone and tenor ...
In the film, the imaginary building evokes both the best and worst of postwar architecture and brutalism, with camera angles and lighting emphasizing its giant volumes of space and hard geometric ...
Of course, that’s not all. “The Brutalist,” which takes its name from the raw style of architecture that Tóth creates, is also about the incalculable trauma that followed World War II.