Few can agree on whether Brutalist architecture looks nice, but seemingly everyone wants to weigh in on the matter. In 2020, ...

The landscape, the food we eat—this whole country is rotten.” And so it goes until the very end, when Corbet unveils his ...

Socialist nations in the 1960s and 1970s quickly jumped on the brutalism trend, using the unpretentious aesthetic of concrete to symbolize equality and a rejection of the bourgeois. Drawing on these ...

The style emerged in post-war Europe where large-scale reconstruction was underway. Le Corbusier, who designed Chandigarh, ...

Brutalism is a style of architecture referring to the vast, grey structures associated with Britain's post-war period and was supposedly named after the French 'beton brut' meaning raw concrete.

Capital Brutalism, an exhibit on view through February 17 at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., amply demonstrates why. Brutalist buildings are unornamented concrete hulks.

Pasnik is coauthor the book "Heroic," which looks at City Hall and other local examples of brutalism, or concrete modernism. ”There’s still lots of people who don’t like City Hall ...