This video is no longer available. Some of D.C.’s most polarizing buildings take center stage in “Capital Brutalism,” the National Building Museum’s latest exhibit. Brutalism — the style that was ...

Federal buildings are often targets of criticism, but federal buildings designed in the Brutalist style seem to generate a particularly intense strain of invective. The J. Edgar Hoover Building (1975) ...

There is no English equivalent of the French phrase jolie laide, defined as “fascinatingly ugly.” How better to describe a Brutalist building?

Brutalist buildings are a significant component of Washington, D.C.’s architectural identity. In the National Building Museum’s new exhibition, Capital Brutalism, this identity is explored further. Co ...

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(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 for 10 ...