However, by then, Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier had already laid its foundation. Brutalism flourished from the 1950s to the 1970s, and its monolithic aesthetics were showcased in public ...

Historian and critic Reyner Banham articulated Brutalism’s core ideas in a 1955 review of Peter and Alison Smith’s Hunstanton School, which was completed in 1954 in Norfolk, United Kingdom. Banham ...

Historian Nikolaus Pevsner once said, ‘A cow shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is architecture’. By turning the ...

His contempt for brutalism isn’t surprising, given that it is mostly associated with 1960s-era government and university ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Some viewers of “The Brutalist” are probably getting their first taste of Brutalism, the architectural style that gives the film its name. The film, which has been nominated ...