The Brutalist has been eagerly anticipated in architectural circles. I anticipated it eagerly myself. These are anti-intellectual times. Art and architecture ... or poured concrete and cut stone.
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, ...
Architecture is the device to explore wider themes in Brady Corbet's ambitious three-and-a-half-hour-plus epic that looks set to sweep The Oscars, writes Sarah Simpkin ...