We have a contrary opinion of brutalist architecture. Sounds awful when you ... To many eyes, they're just ugly. But NPR's Kaity Kline found some people who felt otherwise. KAITY KLINE, BYLINE ...

British architecture critic Reyner Banham is typically ... and Trump is hardly the only person to have called styles ...

And it’s just so ugly.” Sponsor Message Darren ... as beautiful as other types of federal architecture,” said Angela Person, co-curator of a brutalism exhibit at the National Building ...

Despite being frequently described as ugly and uninteresting ... One of the most famous pieces of Brutalist architecture in the United States is the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington ...

Yet “The Brutalist” doesn’t relay much about Brutalist architecture beyond its reflexive ... brick and glass harsh — even ugly — there is a beautiful intent behind them.

“It’s so ugly, it’s beautiful,” said Andy ... “If modernism is about architecture being honest, Brutalist design is about architecture being brutally honest,” Geddes Ulinskas ...