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 ...

Its raw concrete exterior, modular design and cavernous interior spaces contrast starkly with the historic brick buildings surrounding it. Simonson noted: "The brutalist style of Boston City Hall ...

Brutalism is the techno music of architecture, stark and menacing. Brutalist buildings are expensive to maintain and difficult to destroy. They can't be easily remodeled or changed, so they tend ...

The General Services Administration’s briefly available list of DC federal buildings it hoped to sell included many designed in the brutalist style characteristic of many local federal structures.

Brutalist buildings symbolize a time when ... It’s what the founders consciously chose for the core buildings of government in the new nation.” The F.B.I. building — which Mr. Shubow calls ...

By Walker Mimms Now that the White House has decreed that all new government structures be made in a classical style, let’s cue up the original film of buildings and hubris — King Vidor’s ...

Brutalist buildings emphasize form using assemblies ... Historian and critic Reyner Banham articulated Brutalism’s core ideas in a 1955 review of Peter and Alison Smith’s Hunstanton School ...

Generations of buildings have been raised, then razed, during the slow and constant process of urban development. More than five decades after their heyday, the brutalist buildings of North ...