'The Brutalist', which won several awards at the 2025 Oscars, including Best Actor for Adrien Brody, draws from the real history of brutalism, which flourished from the 1950s until around 1980.

UMass Dartmouth is tucked away in the forest of a historic New England town, but the buildings here defy most people’s expectations of what college is supposed to look like. The main green’s ...

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 Brutalist, an epic drama loosely inspired by the life and work of architect Marcel Breuer, is one of the favourites for the Oscars. But the film has drawn scorn from design experts, who accuse ...

Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist is the kind of project that seems willed into existence by sheer conviction alone. A stark, unflinching, and rigorously designed meditation on ambition, power, and ...

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Editor’s Note: The following contains content that may not be suitable for all readers and also reveals plot details of The Brutalist, which is up for several Oscars at Sunday’s Academy Awards. Reader ...

Michael Allen is an Advisor to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Some viewers of “The Brutalist” are probably getting their first taste of Brutalism, the architectural style that ...

Boston City Hall, which was completed in 1968, is considered a classic example of Brutalist architecture. Yunghi Kim/The Boston Globe via Getty Images ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Some viewers of “The Brutalist” are probably getting their first taste of Brutalism, the architectural style that gives the film its name. The film, which has been nominated ...