Often inspiring strong emotions—both those of love and hate—Brutalist architecture remains one of the most divisive architectural styles of the modern age. “The style is characterized by raw, exposed ...

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A concrete playground slide in Bucharest, Romania, looks more like a piece of brutalist architecture than a place for ...

Brutalism, the mid-20th-century architectural and design movement that celebrated (rather than disguised) raw materials and utilitarian functions, has been experiencing a renaissance. Concrete, metal, ...

The years generally haven’t been kind to Brutalist architecture. A divisive school of architecture from the beginning, D.C.’s wealth of buildings in the style have been deemed “faceless, spiritually ...

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 ...

In London, a project to renovate the Acland Burghley School recently received funding, this will help realize one of the building’s future uses as the physical location for the Museum of Brutalist ...

The monolithic concrete that forms some of our most creative 20th-century architectural heritage is in danger of disappearing. Brutalism, that heftily named form of modernism that favors right-angles ...

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