Brutalist architecture, known for its raw concrete ... iStock / Getty Images Plus Architect Moshe Safdie's Habitat 67 in Montreal, completed in 1967, is one of the world's most distinctive ...

Harry Weese’s stations for Washington’s Metro subway system are vaulted spaces with coffer-like rectangular recesses meant to harmonize with Washington’s classical architecture. Not exactly what you’d ...

Yet “The Brutalist” doesn’t relay much about Brutalist architecture beyond its reflexive relationship to Tóth. Drawings and photographs of real-life Brutalist buildings appear in several ...

The Cite Radieuse was just the beginning. Well into the 1970s, brutalist architecture dominated new construction worldwide. Concrete was affordable, and the unadorned forms meant a relatively ...

Brutalist architecture rose to prominence in the 1950s as the trending post-war aesthetic, with an emphasis on raw materials and rough surfaces, massive forms that evoke a sense of scale ...

But the English associations of the word "brutal" give "brutalist" architecture a forbidding sound. Imagine a brutalist building, and you imagine something harsh, cruel, barbaric. A not-nice building.

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. But the English associations of the word "brutal" give "brutalist" architecture a forbidding sound. Imagine a brutalist building ...

Brutalist architecture is a style that emerged in the mid-20th century, characterized by its stark, geometric forms, raw concrete construction, and an emphasis on functionality and structural honesty.

PARIS — Brutalist architecture, or brutalism ... It is located at Cité du Havre, on the Saint Lawrence River, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It started as a thesis project for his master at ...