Few can agree on whether Brutalist architecture looks nice ... and an unlikely box office success. But what is Brutalism, and why does it matter? Below is a guide to the movement.

Many people think brutalist architecture is ugly ... so I have to look at it every day that I’m in the office. And it’s just so ugly.” Darren Williams, a 29-year-old from Michigan said ...

It is the centerpiece of the dystopian 60-acre Government Center urban renewal precinct ... meant to harmonize with Washington’s classical architecture. Not exactly what you’d expect of a brutalist ...

Ugly architecture, Brutalist architecture ... saw a need for more government office space and assembled a committee to guide new construction. The Ad Hoc Committee on Federal Office Space ...

but the city has its fair share of Brutalist architecture, too. Most were built in the previous century to function as offices for corporations and government offices, or residential buildings for ...

who chaired Yale's Department of Architecture, was perhaps America’s finest practitioner of the style. His government offices in Boston and campus buildings in New Haven made brutalism a staple ...

In the architecture world ... Even Kanye's new Yeezy office is heavily influenced by the movement. Despite what you might assume, brutalism doesn't get its name from its aggressively ...

I think it was a popular style in that time because there was this need to really rapidly scale up the amount of office space for the federal government,” said Person. Brutalism got a bad rep in ...