In the architecture world, it's all about the re-appreciation of brutalism. The revival has been relatively swift—the verdict ...

It amounted to a viral reaction against the tidy reductionism of modernism’s own glass-walled box. Many of America’s brutalist buildings now present a choice between expensive renovation and ...

Its raw concrete exterior, modular design and cavernous interior spaces contrast starkly with the historic brick buildings surrounding it. Simonson noted: "The brutalist style of Boston City Hall ...

But the English associations of the word "brutal" give "brutalist" architecture a forbidding sound. Imagine a brutalist building, and you imagine something harsh, cruel, barbaric. A not-nice building.

Call them monuments, foreign elements, eyesores — Brutalist buildings have become another battleground in President Trump’s culture war. The F.B.I. headquarters at the J. Edgar Hoover Building ...