The Brutalist won a trio of Oscars last night, but it failed to say anything meaningful about architecture, writes Edwin Heathcote. The Brutalist tries hard to be an epic movie. And how often do ...
The writer is an architect. Historian Nikolaus Pevsner once said, ‘A cow shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is architecture’. By turning the definition on its head, Swiss-French architect ...
what’s the point of being an architect at all? That question unites two of last year’s most talked-about movies: Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” and Francis Ford Coppola’s ...
The Oscar-winning film "The Brutalist" — a fictional story about a Holocaust survivor and immigrant architect — was inspired by the abbey's church, thanks to a book written by a monk who ...
Harry Weese’s stations for Washington’s Metro subway system are vaulted spaces with coffer-like rectangular recesses meant to harmonize with Washington’s classical architecture. Not exactly what you’d ...
That same assumption drives the plot of The Brutalist, which tells the story of László Tóth (Adrien Brody), a Jewish architect from Hungary who immigrates to the United States after surviving ...
Telling the story of architect Lazlo Toth from his days in Europe to his new life in America, “The Brutalist” sends a ...
The Brutalist follows a Holocaust survivor and architect named László Tóth, a character so well-written (and well-acted by Adrien Brody, who won an Oscar for his performance) that many audience ...