Director Brady Corbet's post-World War II epic "The Brutalist," featuring Adrian Brody and Guy Pearce, won three Oscars at the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles Sunday night. The film had ...

Thomas Pierce wore a Giorgio Armani suit with a brooch of a snake as a nod to Year of the Snake. “I wanted to pay homage to all the snakes in Hollywood,” he laughs.

It amounted to a viral reaction against the tidy reductionism of modernism’s own glass-walled box. Many of America’s brutalist buildings now present a choice between expensive renovation and ...