While it might not be the first thing that comes to mind when one hears the term “Brutalism,” this cold, concrete movement in the architecture world is something most people either love or hate. Yes, ...

Perhaps the most famous Brutalist building in the United States is the J. Edgar Hoover Building. Brutalist architecture is characterized by raw concrete walls, imposing geometrism and repetition, ...

In 2022, a group of German museums, non-profits, and trade magazines came together to launch #SOSBrutalism, a campaign to save Brutalist architecture around the world from demolition. Where others see ...

Cats and brutalist architecture: Who knew the two were a perfect pair? UB urban design graduate students and their professors have generated a fanatical following through an Instagram page, called ...

J. Edgar Hoover Building in New York - Eric Lee/Getty Images If buildings like the J. Edgar Hoover Building in New York make you cringe because of their in-your-face blandness, you can understand how ...

In his 1981 diatribe against contemporary American architecture, “From Bauhaus to Our House,” Tom Wolfe noted that seemingly every American child “goes to a school in a building that looks like a ...

Igor A. Vasilevsky, Druzhba Sanatorium (1985), Kurpaty, Yalta, Ukraine (photo Frederic Chaubin; all images courtesy the publisher) After decades of marginalization, Brutalism has enjoyed a cultural ...

It’s a Tuesday night and I’m surrounded by cinemagoers who have turned out to see The Brutalist at the Barbican Centre, London’s most celebrated brutalist building. “This is great for architecture,” I ...