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Today, the image of Eastern Europe is largely based on these huge concrete blocks of low-cost housing, which generally seem old-fashioned and depressing. This legacy of the former Soviet Union can be ...
Brutalist architecture, known for its raw concrete, geometric forms and imposing presence, has gained a renewed interest in the modern age of social media and more recently through the film The ...
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 ...
Adrien Brody is László Tóth, a refugee architect, in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist. Even if you don’t know what brutalism is, you’ve seen it in action. “Brutalism” is a term given to an architectural ...
When the Soviet Union broke up in the early 1990s, most of the newly independent republics that emerged from the wreckage wanted little to do with their old colonial master. But as the decades passed, ...
Brutalist architecture is a style of building design developed in the 1950s in the United Kingdom following World War II. With an emphasis on construction and raw materials, the aesthetic evolved as ...