Historian Nikolaus Pevsner once said, ‘A cow shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is architecture’. By turning the ...
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 ...
Oh, and by the way, he designed the Buffalo News Building downtown ... cold or harsh – concrete. In Brutalism, dragging Stone along with it, a style emerged built in hope and clear-cut intention.
His contempt for brutalism isn’t surprising, given that it is mostly associated with 1960s-era government and university ...
The building has since been remodeled to cloak the Brutalist design. In the U.K., cities faced damages from Nazi bombing during World War II as well as long-deferred upgrades to public housing.
For fans of both brutalism and Dr. Seuss, there's only one building that matters: Geisel Library. Named after local La Jolla author and benefactor Theodor Seuss Geisel, the library is the somewhat ...
Some viewers of “The Brutalist” are probably getting their first taste of Brutalism ... Tóth insists on the building’s overwhelming scale, starkly unadorned concrete surfaces and ...
Recent years have seen the word Brutalism ... The building’s jolly lego-effect was accentuated by the fact that it used to be light blue; sadly the colour has faded to the uniform grey-brown ...
A not-nice building. A building that wants to hurt you. Or at least your feelings. "There's not a lot of middle ground with brutalism," said architectural historian Meredith Arms Bzdak ...
Breuer is also known for designing parts of Paris’ UNESCO headquarters, New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Pirelli Tire Building in Connecticut. Brutalism is a polarizing ...