Washington DC has a large number of significant brutalist buildings ... pieces that delve deeper into the major stories shaping architecture and design. News about our Dezeen Awards China ...

That’s especially true in Washington ... A lover of brutalism might blanch to learn that the museum has gathered proposals from six architecture firms for reimagining six of our most polarizing ...

Brutalist architecture in the United States is a monument to collective postwar optimism and reassurance that the city and federal governments are in authority. Conceived as an embodiment of ...

In the 1960s, the expansion and creation of agencies and departments in Washington ... of contemporary architecture. At the time, that contemporary style tended to be Brutalism, a style best ...

The new exhibit points out that brutalist architecture really took shape in D.C. during the urban renewal efforts of the 1960s and 1970s. During that time, some of D.C.’s most high-profile ...

Edgar Hoover Building in Washington. In his first term ... Wear a mask, you’re all the same. Ugly architecture, Brutalist architecture.” The style, he said, “was designed to send that ...

If you’ve seen a large building made entirely out of concrete built sometime between the 1950s and 1970s, you’ve probably seen the style of architecture known as brutalism. People have a lot ...

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 ...

After World War II, the Franco-Swiss architect who went by the name of Le Corbusier erected brazenly expressionistic buildings, including an 18-floor Marseilles housing project and a hilltop ...