At dusk, he notes to Van Buren, light will filter through the building, casting a cross against its wall. His steadfast vision slowly chisels into a final form — one that is unsurprisingly brutalist ...

Central to the plot of the director Brady Corbet’s new drama, “The Brutalist,” is an enormous structure known as the Van Buren Institute. A24 Situated in Pennsylvania, it is made of concrete.

"Brutalist buildings often have a stark, monolithic appearance, with exposed concrete as the primary building material," says Nancy Parish, an interior designer in Charlotte, North Carolina.